Contact Educational Objective: At the conclusion of this presentation, the participants should be able to discuss the work-up, diagnosis and management for heterotopic ossification of the larynx and identify the airway risks associated with this diagnosis. Objective: Benign bony lesions involving the larynx are rare. The objective is to review the differential diagnosis and management of laryng...

A 69-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital for further cardiac evaluation with symptoms of dyspnea (New York Heart Association class III) and peripheral edema. Her history revealed artificial mitral valve replacement due to mitral stenosis 8 years earlier, severe chronic pulmonary hypertension, and severe tricuspid valve incompetence. Electrocardiogram showed normofrequent atrial...

A 69-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital for further cardiac evaluation with symptoms of dyspnea (New York Heart Association class III) and peripheral edema. Her history revealed artificial mitral valve replacement due to mitral stenosis 8 years earlier, severe chronic pulmonary hypertension, and severe tricuspid valve incompetence. Electrocardiogram showed normofrequent atrial...

I read with great interest the recent article by García et al.(1) It should be noted that one rare, often overlooked and underrecognized, cause of respiratory tract infections and bronchial dilation is Mounier-Kuhn syndrome (MKS). The primary feature of MKS, also known as “tracheobronchopathia malacia”, is congenital tracheal dilation accompanied by dilation of the main bronchi.(2) The dilation...