A Case of Transient Local Anesthetic Induced Bilateral Vocal Cord Palsy

We report a rare case of bilateral vocal cord palsy following total thyroidectomy with successful extubation within 12 hours. The patient is a 33-year-old lady who underwent uneventful total thyroidectomy for compressive symptoms. Thirty minutes after extubation, she developed stridor and the flexib...

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Autores principales: Rafiq, M., Al-Zoraigi, U., Alzahrani, S., Alabdulkarim, Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26167326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/379258
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author Rafiq, M.
Al-Zoraigi, U.
Alzahrani, S.
Alabdulkarim, Y.
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description We report a rare case of bilateral vocal cord palsy following total thyroidectomy with successful extubation within 12 hours. The patient is a 33-year-old lady who underwent uneventful total thyroidectomy for compressive symptoms. Thirty minutes after extubation, she developed stridor and the flexible laryngoscopy showed bilaterally adducted vocal cords. The patient, thus, was reintubated and after 12 hours she met the extubation parameters and so she was extubated successfully. The repeated flexible laryngoscopy showed normal vocal cords. A review of the literature revealed limited information on this transient condition.
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spelling pubmed-44880912015-07-12 A Case of Transient Local Anesthetic Induced Bilateral Vocal Cord Palsy Rafiq, M. Al-Zoraigi, U. Alzahrani, S. Alabdulkarim, Y. Case Rep Surg Case Report We report a rare case of bilateral vocal cord palsy following total thyroidectomy with successful extubation within 12 hours. The patient is a 33-year-old lady who underwent uneventful total thyroidectomy for compressive symptoms. Thirty minutes after extubation, she developed stridor and the flexible laryngoscopy showed bilaterally adducted vocal cords. The patient, thus, was reintubated and after 12 hours she met the extubation parameters and so she was extubated successfully. The repeated flexible laryngoscopy showed normal vocal cords. A review of the literature revealed limited information on this transient condition. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4488091/ /pubmed/26167326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/379258 Text en Copyright © 2015 M. Rafiq et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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