Foreign bodies in upper airway may have various presentations and be life threatening. Leeches can attach to upper airway and cause serious problems. Herein we report a 55-year-old man with hemoptysis due to attachment of leech and explain our technique for its removal.

Oral appliances for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are worn during sleep to maintain the patency of the upper airway by increasing its dimensions and reducing its collapsibility. Oral appliances are a simpler alternative to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Over the last decade, there has been a significant expansion of the evidence base to support the use of oral appl...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the available literature regarding Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS) treatment. METHODS Keywords "Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome," "Sleep-related Breathing Disorder treatment," "Obstructive Sleep Apnea treatment" and "flow limitation and sleep" were used in main databases. RESULTS We found 27 articles describing UARS treatment. Nasal continuous positive airway ...

BACKGROUND Hereditary angioedema due to C1 inhibitor deficiency (HAE-C1-INH) has considerable implications for dental health care providers, since dental procedures may trigger severe and even life-threatening episodes. The aim of the present study was to analyze the efficacy and safety of premedication with attenuated androgens (AAs), plasma-derived human C1 esterase inhibitor concentrate (pdh...

background: potassium permanganate (pp) is a highly corrosive and deadly agent with a reported lethal dose of 10 g in adults. in this report, successful treatment of a patient poisoned with three times the lethal dose of pp is presented, and effective and early approach to such emergency toxicologic condition is discussed. case presentation:a 24-year-old woman presented to emergency room of our...

BACKGROUND Patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) have a number of upper airway structural abnormalities which may influence the resistance of the oral airway to airflow. There have been no systematic studies of the flow dynamics of the oral cavity in such patients. METHODS Inspiratory oral airway resistance to airflow (RO) was measured in 13 awake patients with OSA in both the upright ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate postoperative airway-associated outcomes following sphincter pharyngoplasty. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Academic tertiary care medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Postoperative management of sphincter pharyngoplasty (SP) conventionally includes overnight observation to monitor for upper airway obstruction. To evaluate for postoperative airwa...

Sleep surgery is an important option in the treatment of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), particularly for those who have failed or cannot tolerate non-surgical treatments, such as positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy or oral appliances. Surgery aims to anatomically reduce upper airway obstruction in the whole upper airway, as in PAP therapy. However, surgery can fail to sufficien...

BACKGROUND Oral taxa are often found in the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) lung microbiota, but it is not clear if this is due to a physiologic process such as aspiration or experimental contamination at the time of specimen collection. METHODS Microbiota samples were obtained from nine subjects with mild or moderate COPD by swabbing lung tissue and upper airway sites during lun...