Background The impact of airway obstruction of nonsmoking women caused by their husband's smoking is unclear, despite the association between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure at home and obstructive pulmonary diseases among nonsmoking women. The aim of this study was to provide evidence that ETS exposure from the husband at home has a more significant influence on the airway obstructi...

OBJECTIVE To define the MRI findings of congenital high airway obstruction sequence (CHAOS) in a series of fetuses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prenatal fetal MR images were reviewed in seven fetuses with CHAOS at 21 to 27 weeks of gestation. The MRI findings were reviewed. The MRI parameters evaluated included the appearance of the lungs and diaphragm, presence or absence of hydrops, amount of amn...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To characterize the relationship between symptoms and the degree of airway obstruction as determined by the FEV1 and peak expiratory flow (PEF) in a cohort of adult patients attending a university-based urban asthma clinic. DESIGN Each of six current asthma symptoms, including cough, dyspnea, wheeze, chest tightness, sputum production, and nocturnal awakening was rated by pat...

BACKGROUND Nasal airway obstruction is a common complaint of patients presenting to otolaryngology clinics and can be caused by a variety of anatomic factors. A number of advances in the surgical management of nasal airway obstruction have been made over the last century. The objective of this article is to provide descriptions of the surgical procedures used to augment specific anatomic devia...

www.PRSJournal.com 607e Turbinate hypertrophy is a common cause of nasal airway obstruction encountered in rhinoplasty patients.1 The inferior turbinate contributes to the posterior border of the internal nasal valve, and turbinate hypertrophy is commonly implicated in nasal airflow obstruction.2 All causes of nasal airway obstruction—including turbinate hypertrophy—must be recognized and addre...

Laryngoceles are abnormal dilatations of the laryngeal saccule, which rises between the ventricular folds, the base of the epiglottis and the inner surface of the thyroid cartilage. Clinical symptoms are rare, and the find of asymptomatic laryngoceles in pathology studies are frequent. Sometimes it is presented as cervical swelling causing airway obstruction in need of emergency intervention. I...

Patients with tracheal or major airway obstruction due to inoperable carcinomas are at a high risk of developing respiratory failure or post-obstructive pneumonia, or both. This often leads to death in days or weeks. In such cases there is usually an urgent need to restore the airway. This report details the short-term results and techniques used for the treatment of airway obstruction by direc...

AIRWAY obstruction is a recognized life-threatening complication of facial fractures. Approximately 27% of patients who present with LeFort fractures require a tracheostorny or a tracheal intubation for the management of airway obstruction or respiratory depression. ' However, obstruction of a secured endotracheal tube caused by external compression of the fracture fragments has not been report...

The clinical and physiologic features of 28 infants with Pierre Robin syndrome and those of 20 infants with various types of nasal obstruction were reviewed to determine whether different causes of upper airway obstructure may lead to a common syndrome. The patients had no significant differences in distribution of main clinical manifestations. Their features included cyanosis with respiratory ...