Epiglottic Calcification: The Unexplored Relationship with Increasing Rates of Renal Disease
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No abstract available. Manuscript truncated after 150 words. To the Editor: In September 2022 issue Southwest Journal of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep published an interesting article authored by Punatar et al. detailing a case severe dysphagia that was secondary to isolated epiglottic calcifications seen on computed tomography flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy (1). The epiglottis plays critical role in prevention aspiration coordination swallowing. Calcifications can severely alter its flexibility limit oral intake. Isolated sequential is not common entity. With increasing rates chronic end-stage renal disease, this letter focused awareness extra-osseous manifestations hyperparathyroidism. Secondary hyperparathyroidism characterized adaptive parathyroid gland hyperplasia increase production hormone. Etiologies include vitamin D deficiency kidney disease. Vitamin be about 50% world population …
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عنوان ژورنال: Southwest journal of pulmonary, critical care & sleep
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2771-5558']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13175/swjpccs043-22