Vocal cord dysfunction
Vocal cord dysfunction: a review
... Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) is a term that refers to inappropriate adduction of the vocal cords during inhalation and sometimes ...asthma. Vocal cord dysfunction can be ...
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Differentiating vocal cord dysfunction from asthma
... Abstract: Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD)-associated symptoms are not rare in pediatric patients. Dyspnea, wheezing, stridor, chest pain or tightness and throat discomfort are the most commonly ...
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The successful treatment of vocal cord dysfunction with low-dose amitriptyline – including literature review
... Abstract: Vocal cord dysfunction is an asthma mimic. Diagnosis of this condition requires a high index of suspicion if unnecessary treatments are to be avoided. We describe the findings from our case ...
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Vocal Cord Dysfunction With Acute Respiratory Failure that Required Repeated Intubation
... Vocal cord dysfunction, also known as laryngeal wheezing or laryngeal asthma, is a disorder charac- terized by paradoxical closure of the vocal cords intermittently during inspiration and ...
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Eucapnic voluntary hyperpnoea and exercise induced vocal cord dysfunction
... Exercise-induced vocal cord dysfunction (EIVCD) is a frequent confounder of EIB. EIVCD is the most common cause of upper airway obstruction during exercise. 10 11 It may present either as an abnormal ...
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Familial Vocal Cord Dysfunction
... must weigh both the potentially life-threatening nature of vocal cord paralysis, as well as the likelihood of even- tual spontaneous resolution of many familial and idio- pathic cases.. [r] ...
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Vocal Cord Dysfunction Mimicking Exercise-induced Bronchospasm in Adolescents
... The complaints of patients in this series were throat tight- ness, dyspnea, wheezing, chest tightness, cough, and voice. change[r] ...
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Hypnosis as a Diagnostic Modality for Vocal Cord Dysfunction
... the vocal cords were visualized, the patient was instructed to develop an episode of respiratory distress while in a state of hypnosis by recalling a recent “neck ...His vocal cords then were observed to ...
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Pseudo-asthma: When Cough, Wheezing, and Dyspnea Are Not Asthma
... of vocal cord dysfunction syndrome is instruction by a speech pathologist who is familiar with this disorder in techniques to voluntarily take control of the vocal cords, which is generally ...
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Hypnosis in pediatrics: applications at a pediatric pulmonary center
... Sixteen patients declined to use hypnosis for pulmonary symptoms (asthma, habit cough, shortness of breath or vocal cord dysfunction) and continued to receive standard medical therapy.. [r] ...
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Sleep Apnea and Vocal Cord Paralysis Secondary to Type I Chiari Malformation
... Holinger PC, Holinger LD, Reichert, et al: Respiratory obstruction and apnea in infants with bilateral abductor vocal cord paralysis, meningomyelocele, hydrocephalus and Arnold-Chiari ma[r] ...
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Vocal Cord Paralysis Secondary to Impacted Esophageal Foreign Bodies in Young Children
... Two cases of young children with esophageal foreign body are described; both presented with respiratory symptoms, 1 with aphonia and the other with stridor. In both cases, the symptoms were secondary to vocal ...
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Atrophy of the Posterior Cricoarytenoid Muscle as an Indicator of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Palsy
... fixed cord should not be accompanied by atrophy of the PCA muscle, and a paralyzed cord should be accompanied by ...of vocal cord paralysis were observed with variable frequency in our ...
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Tuberculous lymphadenitis with anthracosis: an unusual cause of unilateral vocal cord paralysis
... The patient was then referred to the thoracic surgery department. They scheduled the patient for bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy with biopsy. Intraoperatively the patient was found to have left vocal cord ...
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A systematic approach to the recurrent laryngeal nerve dissection at the cricothyroid junction
... Temporary vocal cord palsy was defined as the loss of true vocal cord adduction lasting less than 6 months of surgery, after which the palsy was deemed ...
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Multiple Laryngeal Polyposis; A Newly Introduced Entity: Update
... good vocal habits, maximized medical treatment of related disorders, good speech behavior aided by speech therapist, period of strict post- operative voice rest, gradual return to maximal voice use, the results ...
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Isolated neonatal bilateral vocal cord paralysis revealing a unilateral medullary defect: a case report
... under general anaesthesia, for subglottic and tracheal as- sessment [8]. Other methods for exploring the laryngeal region have been proposed, but they are not routinely used in most centres. Laryngeal US provides dynamic ...
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Bowel Dysfunction in Spinal Cord Injury
... Forty one spinal cord injured patients consented to participate in this study. They came from varied living backgrounds, most of whom were in independent living homes while some were on their own. Patients were ...
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Stroboscopy: an evolving tool for voice analysis in vocal cord pathologies
... The frequency is slightly less and several multiples slower than vocal fold vibration. The entire stroboscopic process is dependent on an adequately stable fundamental frequency, and the resulting sampled images ...
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Results: The majority of patients were seen in the age group of 41-60 years (40%). Male predominance
... In our study, the incidence of hoarseness of voice showed a male to female ratio of 2.3:1. Manual Labourers (hawkers) was the largest group (36 %) of patients with hoarseness of voice. Smoking (40%) was the commonest ...
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