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Ear, Nose, Throat: Beyond Pharyngitis: Retropharyngeal Abscess, Peritonsillar Abscess, Epiglottitis, Bacterial Tracheitis, and Postoperative Tonsillectomy.

Emergency medicine clinics of North America, 2021
Ear, nose, and throat (ENT) emergencies presenting with a chief complaint of pharyngitis can be due to infection, trauma, or postprocedure complications.
M. Akhavan
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Acute epiglottitis: Analysis of U.S. mortality trends from 1979 to 2017.

American Journal of Otolaryngology, 2021
PURPOSE Evaluate trends in mortality due to acute epiglottitis before and after adoption of Haemophilus influenza Type b vaccination (Hib) in pediatric and adult populations.
M. Allen   +5 more
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Epiglottitis

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1983
Epiglottitis is a life-threatening infection due to Hemophilus influenzae causing respiratory obstruction. Commonly presenting in children under 5 years of age, the obstruction progresses rapidly with associated inspiratory stridor, muffled voice, fever and systemic toxicity. The epiglottis is markedly enlarged on lateral neck X-ray. Once the diagnosis
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Clinical and Microbiological Factors Associated With Abscess Formation in Adult Acute Epiglottitis

Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, 2021
Objectives: To evaluate clinical and microbiological findings that are correlated with abscess formation in adult acute epiglottitis (AE). Methods: We reviewed 140 cases of adult AE.
G. Sideris   +6 more
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Adult epiglottitis

The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1989
Adult epiglottitis (or "supraglottitis") is an uncommon but increasingly recognized entity. Though prior studies emphasized the fulminant nature of the disease, recent evidence suggests that epiglottitis in adults may follow a relatively less severe clinical course, especially if Hemophilus influenza is not isolated.
P B, Fontanarosa   +2 more
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Acute epiglottitis is a rare clinical presentation of coronavirus disease 2019: a case report

Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background In humans, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a variable presentation ranging from mild self-limiting respiratory tract infections to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Burak Gezer   +3 more
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Short‐Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Epiglottitis: A Nested Case–Control Study

The Laryngoscope, 2021
This study investigated the impacts of air pollution and meteorological factors on the occurrence of epiglottitis.
So Young Kim   +4 more
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Atypical epiglottitis

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1988
Early diagnosis of acute epiglottitis may be difficult in the child presenting atypically. The cases of four patients who displayed atypical presentation are reported. The initial diagnosis in three children was croup and in one, pharyngitis. In the fourth patient, a child who had coexisting meningitis, epiglottitis was an incidental finding.
S, Schuh, A, Huang, J C, Fallis
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Epiglottitis Associated With Intermittent E-cigarette Use: The Vagaries of Vaping Toxicity

Pediatrics, 2020
With a review of current research into the toxic effects of vaping, we find that epiglottis is attributed to an unusual trigger of e-cigarette use. An adolescent female patient presenting with subacute onset of dysphagia and hoarseness underwent a direct
Michael J. Bozzella   +3 more
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Candida Epiglottitis

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1983
Acute epiglottitis is most commonly of bacterial origin. A case of Candida epiglottis in a healthy, nondebilitated patient is reported. A literature search did not produce a previously reported case.
R S, Haberman, M E, Becker, C N, Ford
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