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Voice changes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2014
Introduction: Voice changes are not a direct symptom of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but many COPD patients experience voice changes.
Enas Elsayed Mohamed   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tracing Spasmodic Dysphonia: the source of Ludwig Traube’s priority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Objectives: Since the mid-20th century, one citation is given historical priority as the first description of Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD): Ludwig Traube’s 1871 case of the “spastic form of nervous hoarseness”.
Arnold GE   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Ecological Momentary Assessment of Voice & Psychological Factors: Group & Individual Mechanisms

open access: yesThe Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
Adults (N = 32) with primary muscle tension dysphonia completed multiple assessments daily for 10 days. In group‐level causal modeling, anxiety was causal for voice handicap, but perceived control was not. Individual‐level analyses identified various causal factors for voice handicap including perceived control and negative affect, and to a lesser ...
Stephanie Misono   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychosis improved dysphonia [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Case Reports, 2013
We present the case of a 40-year-old single man with a diagnosis of Schizoaffective Disorder since 1989 and a comorbid diagnosis of functional (dissociative) dysphonia since 2011. Although receiving ongoing treatment from a Speech and Language Therapist, the patient's symptoms of dysphonia have remained prominent from the time of diagnosis in 2011 and ...
Brian Hallahan, Ruth Murphy
openaire   +3 more sources

Surgical Management of Substernal Goiters: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesThe Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
This systematic review and meta‐analysis of 15,706 patients with substernal goiter highlights that while surgery is often prompted by symptoms or imaging evidence of compression, over a quarter of patients were asymptomatic. The majority of cases (88.7%) were successfully managed through a cervical approach, with only a minority requiring thoracic ...
Matthew H. Cheung   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Work-related voice disorder

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2015
INTRODUCTION: Dysphonia is the main symptom of the disorders of oral communication. However, voice disorders also present with other symptoms such as difficulty in maintaining the voice (asthenia), vocal fatigue, variation in habitual vocal fundamental ...
Paulo Eduardo Przysiezny   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosis and treatment of dysphonia at the present stage

open access: yesМедицинский совет, 2020
The article discusses the main aspects of diagnosis and treatment of dysphonia at the present stage and provides best practice guidelines. There is a vast array of pathologies that can give rise to dysphonia.
V. M. Svistushkin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of repeated dysphonia among school-age children in Hong Kong [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There have been few reports on the prevalence of voice disorders in children, with figures from previous studies varying widely from 0.12% to 23.4%. However, no local data is yet available in Hong Kong. This study examined the prevalence of dysphonia and
Ng, Sai-pui, 伍世培
core  

Local anaesthesia efficacy as postoperative analgesia for open shoulder instability surgery. a prospective randomised controlled study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background and objectives: The aim of present study was to evaluate for the first time, the clinical effect of local anaesthetic infiltration as postoperative analgesia in open shoulder surgery for anterior-inferior instability.
Caricati Alessio   +6 more
core   +1 more source

A psychosocial intervention for the management of functional dysphonia: complex intervention development and pilot randomised trial

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies, 2018
BackgroundMedically unexplained loss or alteration of voice—functional dysphonia—is the commonest presentation to speech and language therapists (SLTs). Besides the impact on personal and work life, functional dysphonia is also associated with increased ...
V. Deary   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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