Introduction: Hoarseness of voice is a very common condition and is caused by recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy. Many possible causes of unilateral vocal cord paralysis are known, including malignant or less often benign tumors, iatrogenic injury, inflammation, or post radiation fibrosis causing nerve palsy due to encasement. Cardiovocal syndrome or Ortner’s syndrome is hoarseness due to left rec...

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...

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...

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...

Cardiovocal syndrome or Ortner’s can be caused due to a myriad of etiologies in the neck mediastinum. The also consequence many cardiac mediastinal pathologies even complications surgical treatment. objective this research was systematically review provide an overview etiopathogenesis syndrome. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews used methodology and adhered “Preferred Reporting Items Revi...

Ortner syndrome or cardiovocal syndrome refers to hoarseness of voice due to recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis secondary to cardiovascular disease. We present three cases of Ortner syndrome in infants with congenital heart disease. All the three cases had moderate to severe pulmonary hypertension with moderately dilated pulmonary artery. We believe that the dilated pulmonary artery caused com...