Background and objectives: Hoarseness is defined as roughness of voice resulting from variations of periodicity or intensity of consecutive sound waves. Hoarseness is a symptom not a disease. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in the department of Otorhinolaryngology, IQ City Medical College and Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Durgapur, India between August 2015 to February 2017....

A one-year-old boy accidentally aspirated a salmon bone while eating. Computed tomography showed foreign body at the larynx level, and fiberscopic examination revealed fish in glottic space. The first attempt to remove by forceps using laryngoscope failed with child conscious. This treatment caused laryngeal edema, tracheostomy was performed. ultimately removed direct under general anesthesia. ...

BACKGROUND Allergic sensitization and reactions to guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) have been well documented in laboratory animal handlers, primarily manifesting as rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma. Severe allergic reactions, however, are rare. METHODS We report two patients with severe allergic reactions following non-occupational exposure to guinea pigs. The first patient, an 11-year-old f...

OBJECTIVE Tooth extractions may trigger clinical symptoms of hereditary angioedema due to C1 inhibitor deficiency (HAE-C1-INH). The aim of this study was to determine how many tooth extractions were followed by symptoms of HAE-C1-INH in patients with and without preoperative short-term prophylaxis with C1 inhibitor concentrate. STUDY DESIGN Tooth extractions and clinical symptoms of HAE-C1-IN...

Results Data from 51 patients, 29 (57%) females and 22 (43%) males, from 5 to 88 years old (mean: 32 years) was evaluated. Patients belonged to 7 families, 20 of them from the same family. The mean age of onset was 10 years and of diagnosis 26 years. Fifty (98%) patients were symptomatic, and 28 (55%) had experienced laryngeal edema. Deaths by laryngeal edema had occurred in 6 families. Crisis ...

Relapsing polychondritis is a rare autoimmune disease causing inflammation in cartilaginous structures and other tissues throughout the body. Negative-pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) due to laryngeal swelling from relapsing polychondritis is rare and has not been reported. Here, we report a case of relapsing polychondritis in an 18-y-old female who presented with recurrent NPPE and acute respir...

We report herein a case of laryngeal sarcoidosis that was refractory to systemic corticosteroids, but that improved spontaneously. A 49-year-old woman complained of dysphagia and hoarseness with accompanying edematous swellings of both arytenoid regions. She was referred to our hospital after systemic corticosteroid therapy failed to achieve any improvement. Laryngoscopy showed marked edema of ...

1. Small animals (rat and guinea pig) vagotomized in the neck die within a period of hours, the lungs showing extensive congestion and edema. 2. Tracheotomy permits appreciably longer survival with minimal lung changes approximating those seen in the control animals. 3. Intrathoracic vagotomy (sparing the recurrent laryngeal nerve) on one side, and cervical vagotomy on the other, permits almost...

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is an inherited autosomal dominant trait and symptoms of HAE include sudden onset of edema in various organs, such as subcutaneous edema, laryngeal edema and gastrointestinal tracts mucosa. We have experienced a case of a pregnant woman diagnosed with HAE and successfully managed her pregnancy. The patient was 37 years old, gravida 1, primiparous. She had experienced...

Here we present the case of a 64 year old female with a history of neck radiation and Reinke’s edema that experienced unexpected respiratory failure after a sedation anesthetic. After the case terminated, the patient was noted to be hypoventilating and stridorous. Mask ventilation, laryngeal mask airway ventilation, and direct laryngoscopy failed. The patient was intubated with video laryngosco...