Nine of 14 asthmatic patients who presented with persistent dysphonia while taking inhaled corticosteroids had a bilateral adductor vocal cord deformity with bowing of the cords on phonation. This causes the dysphonia and usually occurs without candidiasis. It was seen with beclomethasone dipropionate (in both pressurised aerosol and dry powder preparations), betamethasone valerate, and budeson...

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Introduction: Laryngeal dysfunction may be divided into three categories; organic, neurologic and functional disorders. Dysphonia and hoarseness are the most common symptoms and, in some cases, the only signs of laryngeal dysfunction. In differential diagnosis of any type of chronic hoarseness, a neoplastic process must be considered and, thus continuous light video laryngoscopy can provide imp...

The association of upper extremity essential tremor and several types of other dystonias, including spasmodic dysphonia, have been reported in the past [1,2]. We previously reported a brief case description of a patient with essential tremor (ET) of the hands and adductor spasmodic dysphonia (SD) with vocal tremor who responded to bilateral thalamic DBS with six month follow up [3]. Our patient...

OBJECTIVES To characterize the voice quality of individuals with dysphonia and to investigate possible correlations between the degree of voice deviation (D) and scores on the Dysphonia Risk Screening Protocol-General (DRSP), the Voice-Related Quality of Life (V-RQOL) measure and the Voice Handicap Index, short version (VHI-10). METHODS The sample included 200 individuals with dysphonia. Foll...

INTRODUCTION Despite multiple studies reporting marked benefit of botulinum toxin (BTX) for treatment of cricopharyngeal dysphagia, little is known about its safety for this indication. We examined the safety of cricopharyngeal BTX for dysphagia in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD). METHODS We reviewed records of patients with OPMD who received cricopharyngeal BTX. RESULTS Twenty-fo...

Dysphonia is frequently an expression of laryngitis, especially when it comes in the evolution of an immunosuppressed patient, as happens in chronic lymphoproliferation. But other causes of dysphonia should also not be forgotten, including the possibility of new malignancies, especially due to the fact that these patients have genomic instability that predisposes to appearance of a second or ev...

BACKGROUND success and difficulties in the treatment of psychogenic dysphonia. AIM to discuss the limitations of speech therapy for psychogenic dysphonia associated with other diseases. METHOD evaluation protocols and therapy registrations were used for discussion of the case. RESULTS the patient arrived with a significant voice change and after evaluation psychogenic dysphonia was diagno...

Functional dysphonia-a voice disturbance in the absence of structural or neurologic laryngeal pathology-is an enigmatic and controversial voice disorder that is frequently encountered in multidisciplinary voice clinics. Poorly regulated activity of the intrinsic and extrinsic laryngeal muscles is cited as the proximal cause of functional dysphonia, but the origin of this dyregulated laryngeal m...