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A Rare Cause of Hoarseness - Cardiovocal Syndrome
Vocal cord palsy presented with hoarseness due to cardiovascular pathology, is an extremely rare entity, better known as Ortner’s syndrome or cardiovocal syndrome. The common underlying pathology is described as compression of the recurrent laryngeal nerve by the pulmonary artery or enlargement of the left atrium. We reported a case of undiagnosed congenital heart disease in a young woman prese...
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Laryngeal electromyography is used in the evaluation of vocal cord paralysis to confirm the diagnosis, to guide the diagnostic work-up for etiology, to provide prognostic information and to help choose the correct treatment for the patient. Cardiovocal syndrome is characterised by vocal cord paralysis due to a cardiovascular disease. A wide spectrum of conditions can result in this syndrome. He...
متن کاملA rare cause of Ortner's syndrome (cardiovocal hoarseness).
A 78 year old man with a history of hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and a myocardial infarction woke up one morning to realise that he had lost his voice. He did not feel ill nor had he experienced symptoms of cough or fever. He had smoked cigarettes for over 60 years and had a brother with lung cancer. Left vocal cord paralysis was assessed at laryngoscopy. A contrast enhanced computed tomogra...
متن کاملHoarseness subsequent to cardiovascular surgery, intervention, maneuver and endotracheal intubation: the so-called iatrogenic Ortner's (cardiovocal) syndrome.
BACKGROUND The clinical characteristics and outcomes of hoarseness subsequent to cardiovascular surgery, intervention, maneuver and endotracheal intubation have not been systematically elucidated. METHODS The literature of hoarseness following cardiovascular surgery, intervention, and maneuver and intubation published between 1980 and 2011 was comprehensively retrieved in the MEDLINE database...
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Cardiovocal syndrome or Ortner's syndrome is hoarseness due to left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy caused by mechanical affection of the nerve from enlarged cardiovascular structures. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is extremely rarely found to cause this syndrome. We describe a case of a 56-year-old patient with sudden onset of hoarseness. The patient had known long standing sev...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1122-0643
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2011.212