Life-Threatening Respiratory Distress in a Total Laryngectomy Patient: Aspirated Voice Prosthesis or Lung Tumor?
Autor: | Ozan Bagis Ozgursoy, Cabir Yüksel, Selmin Karatayli Ozgursoy, Gürsel Dursun |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Respiratory distress business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Case Report Second primary cancer medicine.disease Voice prosthesis Laryngectomy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis medicine Lung tumor 030223 otorhinolaryngology Intensive care medicine business Airway Lung cancer |
Zdroj: | Turk Otolarengoloji Arsivi/Turkish Archives of Otolaryngology. 54:131-133 |
ISSN: | 2149-553X 0304-4793 |
Popis: | Laryngectomy patients usually have poor pulmonary functions due to long-term smoking. Their lungs can easily be decompensated. Hence, meticulous evaluation and timely management of severe respiratory distress in laryngectomy patients can be life savers. Here we present an interesting case of a laryngectomy patient with two different clinical presentations of life-threatening respiratory distress at the same time (aspiration of voice prosthesis and a second primary lung cancer). Marked or persistent respiratory distress in a laryngectomy patient deserves thorough clinical evaluation and may require urgent intervention. We consider that the presentation and course of respiratory distress in our laryngectomy patient will provide an additional aspect for emergency room doctors and airway specialists dealing with such a patient. |
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