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Allergies Therapy

Investigators at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Department of Respiratory Medicine target allergies therapy

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, July 20th, 2007

Investigators publish new data in the report "Vocal cord dysfunction treated with long-term tracheostomy: 2 case studies. Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) is an increasingly recognized condition that affects the upper airway, which can be difficult to discriminate from asthma. Speech therapy and psychological cognitive therapy are the mainstays of treatment, but other modalities have been used when response is unsatisfactory," scientists in Birmingham, the United Kingdom report.

"To present 2 case studies in which VCD has been treated with long-term tracheostomy. In the first patient, VCD was diagnosed by nasoendoscopic demonstration of paradoxical movement of the vocal...

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