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The use of the schwa vowel at cough offset is an automatic production that can be easily prolonged and modified as a phonation-producing device without requesting initial voluntary phonation on the part of the patient. It is presented as a clinical method that was successful for the author with two
Psychogenic aphonia is a conversion symptom which is quite annoying to the patient. This article concentrates on the treatment of psychogenic aphonia. The literature contains only few articles on this subject. We present in detail a very efficient way of treatment with directive and biofeedback
A 37-year-old male non-smoker developed rapidly severe respiratory disease after a 3-hour exposure to hydrobromic acid fumes. An upper airway syndrome ensued with anosmia and aphonia as well as non-specific bronchial hyperreactivity, obstructive bronchiolitis (which led to a persistent respiratory
Foreign bodies can become lodged anywhere in the air passages, depending on their size, shape, and makeup. Symptoms of laryngeal foreign body inhalation can vary greatly but usually include one or more of the following: hoarseness, croupy cough, stridor, wheezing, dyspnea, cyanosis, hemoptysis,
The impact of sustained inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy on the larynx and pharynx was assessed using a prospective, cross-sectional, and investigator-blinded study conducted at the University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK. Forty-six adults recruited from two local general practices and from
A 6-year-review of patients who presented with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) to our hospital from January 1996 to December 2001 was carried out. Ten cases were identified, of which six were juvenile-onset RRP. Hoarseness was the most common symptom, noted in nine (90%) patients. Other
OBJECTIVE
The injuries of the larynx constitute around 1% of all injuries. The great majority of the injuries of the larynx happens during playing. The effects of these injuries may appear insignificant however, not always the direct clinical symptoms correlate with the degree of respiratory tract
BACKGROUND
Due to dynamic industrialisation smog became a frequent phenomenon in most developing cities. According to the last WHO report from Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Krakow has been classified in the 11th place among the most polluted cities in Europe. It seems to be an urgent
As a further step towards the modernization of acupuncture, the objective of this review was to figure out the frequency and severity of adverse complications and events in acupuncture treatment reported from 1980 to 2013 in China. All first-hand case reports of acupuncture-related complications and
Over a period of 4 years, 14 cases of traumatic neuroma were detected in laryngoscopic biopsy specimens. The approximate incidence was 10% of biopsy specimens from this area. The most frequent symptoms in descending order of frequency, were hoarseness, dysphagia, choking spells, intermittent