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- Title
Repeated postoperative laryngeal obstruction due to bilateral cricoarytenoid joint involvement in rheumatoid arthritis.
- Authors
Fujiwara, Sayaka; Nakamura, Ichiro; Higo, Ryuzaburo; Tajiri, Yasuhito; Nakamura, Kozo; Oda, Hiromi
- Abstract
A 61-year-old woman with a 40-year history of severe rheumatoid arthritis developed postoperative laryngeal obstruction twice; the first episode occurred just after surgery for cervical myelopathy and the second episode occurred 3 weeks after surgery when physiotherapy activity increased. A flexible laryngeal endoscopy demonstrated that abduction of the bilateral vocal cords was severely disturbed at the paramedian position, suggesting a diagnosis of cricoarytenoid arthritis. Early administration of corticosteroids was successful.
- Subjects
RHEUMATOID arthritis; ARTHRITIS; AUTOIMMUNE diseases; BLOOD hyperviscosity syndrome; POSTOPERATIVE care
- Publication
Modern Rheumatology, 2005, Vol 15, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
1439-7595
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3109/s10165-004-0374-6