Subglottic hemangioma masquerading as croup and treated successfully with oral propranolol

Subglottic hemangioma (SGH) is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition of the airway. A 3-month-old girl presented with croup which improved only partially with nebulized adrenaline and intramuscular dexamethasone. An upper airway endoscopy revealed the diagnosed of SGH. Oral propranolol w...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Prawin, Kaushal, Darwin, Garg, Pawan Kumar, Gupta, Neeraj, Goyal, Jagdish Prasad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6503729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31031345
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_200_18
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author Kumar, Prawin
Kaushal, Darwin
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Goyal, Jagdish Prasad
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description Subglottic hemangioma (SGH) is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition of the airway. A 3-month-old girl presented with croup which improved only partially with nebulized adrenaline and intramuscular dexamethasone. An upper airway endoscopy revealed the diagnosed of SGH. Oral propranolol was started, and following that, there was a dramatic response within 48-h of therapy, and complete remission after 1 year of therapy.
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spelling pubmed-65037292019-05-10 Subglottic hemangioma masquerading as croup and treated successfully with oral propranolol Kumar, Prawin Kaushal, Darwin Garg, Pawan Kumar Gupta, Neeraj Goyal, Jagdish Prasad Lung India Case Report Subglottic hemangioma (SGH) is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition of the airway. A 3-month-old girl presented with croup which improved only partially with nebulized adrenaline and intramuscular dexamethasone. An upper airway endoscopy revealed the diagnosed of SGH. Oral propranolol was started, and following that, there was a dramatic response within 48-h of therapy, and complete remission after 1 year of therapy. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6503729/ /pubmed/31031345 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_200_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Chest Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Subglottic hemangioma masquerading as croup and treated successfully with oral propranolol
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title_short Subglottic hemangioma masquerading as croup and treated successfully with oral propranolol
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