Cook Children's Aerodigestive Clinic

Cook Children's Aerodigestive Clinic delivers advanced care for your child with complex airways, respiratory problems and gastrointestinal disorders. Our multispecialty team has expertise to diagnose, treat and manage their complex conditions. Your child’s care team may include pediatric otolaryngologists, pediatric pulmonologists, pediatric gastroenterologists, dietitians, speech and feeding therapists, respiratory therapists and more.

• Airway stenosis (narrowing of the trachea "windpipe")
• Aspiration (when food or liquid enters the airway)
• Dysphagia (swallowing difficulty)
• Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) (chronic inflammation of the esophagus, thought to be an immune reaction to various triggers)
• Esophageal stricture (abnormal narrowing of the esophageal lumen)
• Feeding and respiratory disorders
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease
• Gastrointestinal motility disorders associated with breathing and feeding difficulties
• Laryngeal cleft (malformation involving the larynx and esophagus)
• Laryngomalacia (soft/floppy larynx or upper airway)
• Tracheoesophageal fistula (malformation involving the trachea and esophagus)
• Tracheomalacia (when the windpipe is floppy or abnormally collapsible) 
• Tracheobronchomalacia (when distal airways/bronchial tubes are floppy or abnormally collapsible) 
• Vocal cord paralysis (occurs when the nerve impulse to your voice box are disrupted, resulting in paresis or immobility of the vocal cord. This can affect your ability to speak and even breathe)

• Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy (Rigid microlaryngoscopy, rigid/flexible Bronchsocopy, ssophagogastroduodenoscopy)
• Esophageal pH and impedance probes
• Esophageal Manometry
• Endoscopic airway reconstruction
• Complex airway reconstruction
• Endoscopic voice evaluation
• Functional Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES)
• Modified Barium Swallow Study (MBSS)
• Polysomnogram (Sleep study)
• Drug-induced sleep endoscopy

For referrals, please call our offices at 682-303-3350.

Aerodigestive Clinic referral form