LARYNGEAL SPASM

Parkinsonism associated with laryngeal spasm.

Laryngeal foreign body causing bronchial spasm.

Foreign bodies (FB) in the larynx and trachea usually lead to alarming circumstances, with death by complete obstruction of the respiratory tract as its utter consequence. Incidence rates are not high (2-11% of respiratory tract foreign bodies). Children from 6 months to 4 years of age are the most frequently affected, as expected due to their yet immature swallowing neuromuscular mechanism and...

Laryngeal Spasm Mimicking Asthma and Vitamin D Deficiency

We present a woman with heterozygous carnitine palmitoyl transferase 2 (CPT-2) deficiency who in the last 6 months suffered from episodic dyspnea and choking. Symptoms could not be attributed to her muscular energy defect, since heterozygous CPT-2 deficiency is usually asymptomatic or causes only mild muscle fatigability. Myopathy is usually triggered by concurrent factors, either genetic (addi...

Treatment of laryngeal spasm in pediatric anesthesia by retroauricular digital pressure. Case report.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Problems with pediatric airways are among the greatest challenges an anesthesiologist can face. Laryngeal spasm, which is twice or three times more frequent in the pediatric population, is paramount. The objective of this work was to report the treatment of laryngeal spasm applying digital pressure on a specific area behind the ear lobe. The technique is old, easy, but...

Oesophageal Spasm

Osgood (1889) is generally credited with the introduction of the term " diffuse spasm " of the oesophagus. However, though Moersch and Camp (1934) recorded a classical description of the clinical and radiological features of the disease it attracted little interest until the introduction of oesophageal motility studies in the 1950s. Since then a characteristic motility pattern has been describe...