ALLMedicine™ Vocal Cord Dysfunction Center

Nov 21st, 2022 - Approximately 30-50% of infants undergoing neonatal surgery for congenital heart disease (CHD) cannot meet oral feeding goals by discharge and require feeding tube support at home. Feeding tubes are associated with increased readmission rates and ...

Oct 12th, 2022 - Our primary outcome measure is the development of a near fatal asthma exacerbation. Secondary outcome measures will include the duration of continuously nebulized ADRβ2 agonist therapy and the duration of IV ADRβ2 agonist therapy. Children will be...

Jul 24th, 2022 - Asthma is the most prevalent chronic disease in pregnancy, and as symptoms can change with pregnancy, and exacerbations of asthma are common, regular review of asthma symptoms, the provision of self-management education, and appropriate medication...

Jul 22nd, 2022 - Acute illnesses affecting the respiratory tract are common and form a significant component of the work of Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) clinicians. Acute respiratory illness (ARill) can broadly be classified as non-infective ARill and acute r...

Jun 2nd, 2022 - Post-COVID-19 Vocal Cord Dysfunction.|2022|Garg A,Peterson BE,Comellas AP,|complications,diagnosis,

Oct 12th, 2022 - Our primary outcome measure is the development of a near fatal asthma exacerbation. Secondary outcome measures will include the duration of continuously nebulized ADRβ2 agonist therapy and the duration of IV ADRβ2 agonist therapy. Children will be...

Feb 21st, 2022 - This is a prospective randomized controlled study. The principal investigator or another clinical investigator in charge will individually inform the patients about the study, on the day before surgery. When informed consent is obtained, an invest...

Nov 9th, 2021 - Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) refers to the abnormal adduction of the vocal cords during breathing resulting in extrathoracic airway obstruction. These patients often complain of wheezing, cough and shortness of breath. Symptoms of VCD mimic asthma...

Jun 9th, 2021 - The practice of performing tracheostomy and gastrostomy simultaneously has been reported since the 1980s. The safety and feasibility of simultaneous tracheostomy with gastrostomy (TSG), compared to non-simultaneous or delayed approach (TDG), among...

Nov 30th, 2020 - Exercise induced inspiratory symptoms (EIIS) is increasingly recognized as an important differential diagnosis to exercise induced asthma (EIA) in otherwise healthy adolescents. EIIS is most often linked to laryngeal abnormalities and if so, often...

Sep 3rd, 2021 - Just one preoperative dose of dexamethasone proved of benefit for thyroidectomy patients, according to a randomized clinical trial in Pakistan. In a study of 192 patients, those who received dexamethasone prior to surgery saw significantly lower r...

Oct 9th, 2020 - Discussion This case is very challenging because the patient had the findings of and met the criteria for OSA, periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD)/restless legs syndrome (RLS), and hypersomnolence. She also had several historical findings that ...

May 18th, 2020 - Misdiagnosis of asthma reportedly occurs in as many as 30% of cases. Alternate diagnoses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, left ventricular failure, localized obstruction, cystic fibrosis, and/or vocal cord dysfunction should be exclu...

Sep 24th, 2018 - Ten treatable traits in people with severe asthma can help predict asthma attacks, say authors of a study published online September 19 in Respirology. These traits are more prevalent in those with severe disease compared with nonsevere disease, a...

May 7th, 2018 - NEW ORLEANS – If a patient’s asthma symptoms don’t fluctuate over time and in severity, it’s definitely time to entertain the possibility of diagnostic error, Kyle I. Happel, MD, said at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians.