A n62-year-old woman presented with chronic n productive cough, intermittent wheezing, and nshortness of breath over a 5-year period. She was a nnonsmoker and had no history of environmental nexposure to chemicals or dust. Her medical history nwas notable for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) ...
In the study, the team involved 23 patients admitted to ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgery with aerodigestive symptoms like choking episodes, chronic cough, and difficult or painful swallowing. These patient’s heart rates, blood pressure, and baroreflex sensitivit...
The most frequent symptoms of achalasia are dysphagia, chest pain, regurgitation of food, and weight loss. Secondary pulmonary disease can occur due to regurgitation and aspiration of retained esophageal contents. This can cause symptoms of chronic cough, especially nocturnal cough, choking, recurrent ...
The reasons for this are complex and stretch far beyond the mechanics of swallowing. In patients with a swallowing problem the lack of informed carers and of suitably prepared food combined with coexistent impairments of respiratory function, cough, posture control, motivation, appetite, control of ...
This can cause symptoms of chronic cough, especially nocturnal cough, choking, recurrent pulmonary infections, pneumonia, wheezing, atelectasis and rarely pulmonary empyema [10]. Some patients may develop hoarseness of the voice caused by direct pressure of distended esophagus on the recurrent laryngeal...
We studied initial assessments of patients who were eventuallydiagnosed with these conditions with the purpose of profiling their complaints anddelineating clinical patterns.Methods: The records of 37 patients presenting with choking, shortness of breath, andchronic cough were retrospectively reviewed. Data...
(n=28%) cough related choking sensation while eating was reported in 86 subjects (n=25%) and was more in younger than older subjects; development of hernia due to chronic cough was seen in 18% of patients 鈥搈ostly inguinal or incisional hernia in a previous anterior abdominal incisional...
A Six-year-old male admitted through the Children Emergency Room (CHER) with 6 months history of recurrent cough and fever associated with choking spells and noisy breathing, and a day history of shortness of breath. Child was said to have "swallowed" a plastic object in ...
Result: Among 76 patients represented with chronic pharyngolaryngitis there were (41 ± 0.45) complaining of dysphagia (54 ± 0.45) of foreign body sensation (46 ± 0.5), of chronic dry cough (39 ± 0.5), with nocturnal choking (67 ± 0.48) with recurrent sore throat (48 ± 0.37), ...
CPA was not diagnosed in any patient with normal growth, normal neurological development, and an LLMI <86. No other clinical observation (cough, wheeze, vomiting, difficulty feeding, choking with feeding, recurrent pneumonia, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, chronic chest X-ray changes, endotracheal tube,...