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Published in Peter Kopelman, Dame Jane Dacre, Handbook of Clinical Skills, 2019
Peter Kopelman, Dame Jane Dacre
Try to separate these symptoms in your questioning. The cough in tracheitis is often dry and extremely painful behind the trachea, and is associated with pain on coughing. Cough is also associated with lobar pneumonia and lung collapse due to bronchial obstruction – the two conditions may be accompanied by pleurisy, making the cough distressingly painful over the lungs.
The Interstitial Pneumonias
Published in Lourdes R. Laraya-Cuasay, Walter T. Hughes, Interstitial Lung Diseases in Children, 2019
After an average incubation period of 10 to 12 days, prodromal signs and symptoms appear. These include profuse serous and mucus nasal discharge, excessive lacrimation and photophobia, sneezing and mild irritating cough. As the rash develops, tracheobronchial symptoms and fever increases. A tracheitis may be prominent. Rhonchi and crackles may be heard. If the individual does not recover, a mild cough persists.
Acute airway conditions
Published in S. Musheer Hussain, Paul White, Kim W Ah-See, Patrick Spielmann, Mary-Louise Montague, ENT Head & Neck Emergencies, 2018
Panagiotis Asimakopoulos, Mary-Louise Montague
A history of rapidly progressive sore throat associated with stridor, dysphagia, drooling, muffled voice and incomplete immunisation history is suggestive of acute epiglottitis. The child will be in acute distress, febrile, drooling and sitting in the classic ‘tripod position’. A prodromal viral illness followed by a seal-like barking cough with stridor and sternal or intercostal recession that worsens when the child is agitated is characteristic of croup. Children with bacterial tracheitis may have symptoms consistent with a croup-like illness but will deteriorate suddenly after 2 to 7 days of medical treatment. They typically present with fever, toxic appearance and persistent painful cough with biphasic stridor.
Life-threatening idiopathic subglottic stenosis misdiagnosed as asthma
Published in Acta Oto-Laryngologica Case Reports, 2022
Niloofar Sherazi Dreyer, Kristine Grubbe Gregersen, Kristian Hveysel Bork
Subglottic stenosis is the obstruction of the central airway in the region below the glottis and bounded inferiorly by second tracheal ring. Causes of subglottic stenosis can be congenital, acquired, or idiopathic. The most common causes are trauma following intubation (prolonged/repetitive intubation or excessive endotracheal tube cuff pressure) and tracheostomy. Acquired causes may be external and internal traumas. External are typically trauma to the neck/larynx and internal traumas can include (intubation or tracheotomy) as mentioned earlier. Other acquired causes include infections as bacterial tracheitis, tuberculosis, gastroesophageal reflux disorder (GERD), systemic diseases (amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, polyarteritis, granulomatosis with polypangiitis), radiation therapy, inhalational injury, tracheal malignancy, and foreign body aspiration [1].
The impact of early surgical treatment of tracheal stenosis on neurorehabilitation outcome in patients with severe acquired brain injury
Published in Brain Injury, 2023
R. Formisano, M. D’Ippolito, M. Giustini, C. Della Vedova, L. Laurenza, M. Matteis, C. Menna, E. A. Rendina
Indeed, despite the limitations of the retrospective nature of the study, our data could suggest some recommendations, according to the clinical criteria adopted for consideration of surgical correction of tracheal stenosis, such as: respiratory disorders which interfere with rehabilitation process, absence of tracheitis, bronchitis or other infections, sufficient collaboration of the patient to adhere with the post-surgical movements limitations.