Acute airway obstruction, an unusual presentation of vallecular cyst

A 18-year-old female presented to us with acute respiratory obstruction, unconsciousness, severe respiratory acidosis, and impending cardiac arrest. The emergency measures to secure the airway included intubation with a 3.5-mm endotracheal tube and railroading of a 6.5-mm endotracheal tube over a su...

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Autores principales: Jahagirdar, Sameer M, Karthikeyan, P, Ravishankar, M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174474
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.89896
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description A 18-year-old female presented to us with acute respiratory obstruction, unconsciousness, severe respiratory acidosis, and impending cardiac arrest. The emergency measures to secure the airway included intubation with a 3.5-mm endotracheal tube and railroading of a 6.5-mm endotracheal tube over a suction catheter. Video laryngoscopy done after successful resuscitation showed an inflamed swollen epiglottis with a swelling in the left vallecular region, which proved to be a vallecular cyst. Marsupialisation surgery was performed on the 8(th) post admission day and the patient discharged on 10(th) day without any neurological deficit.
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spelling pubmed-32371572011-12-15 Acute airway obstruction, an unusual presentation of vallecular cyst Jahagirdar, Sameer M Karthikeyan, P Ravishankar, M Indian J Anaesth Case Report A 18-year-old female presented to us with acute respiratory obstruction, unconsciousness, severe respiratory acidosis, and impending cardiac arrest. The emergency measures to secure the airway included intubation with a 3.5-mm endotracheal tube and railroading of a 6.5-mm endotracheal tube over a suction catheter. Video laryngoscopy done after successful resuscitation showed an inflamed swollen epiglottis with a swelling in the left vallecular region, which proved to be a vallecular cyst. Marsupialisation surgery was performed on the 8(th) post admission day and the patient discharged on 10(th) day without any neurological deficit. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3237157/ /pubmed/22174474 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.89896 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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