| Journal: | Revista brasileira de otorrinolaringologia |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000306615 |
| ISSN: | 0034-7299 |
| Authors: | Guidolin, Fernanda1 Magro, Carlos Eduardo Bezerra-Neto, Francisco Skare, Thelma L |
| Institutions: | 1Hospital Universitario Evangelico de Curitiba, Curitiba, Parana. Brasil |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Season: | May-Jun |
| Volumen: | 70 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Pages: | 419-422 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Caso clínico |
| English abstract | We describe a patient with Wegener Granulomatosis being treated with steroids and cyclofosfamide that developed progressive dyspnea and hoarseness despite of treatment. Investigation showed a subglotic stenosis. The dyspnea was relieved by tracheotomy. We discuss the differential diagnosis as well as a number of treatment modalities in patients with Wegener granulomatosis and subglottic stenosis |
| Portuguese abstract | Descreve-se o caso de um paciente com Granulomatose de Wegener, em tratamento com esteróides e ciclofosfamida, que, apesar do tratamento, evoluiu com dispnéia progressiva e rouquidão. A investigação mostrou tratar-se de uma estenose subglótica, sendo a dispnéia prontamente aliviada com a traqueostomia. São discutidos diagnósticos diferenciais e modalidades de tratamentos de estenose subglótica em portadores de Wegener |
| Disciplines: | Medicina |
| Keyword: | Otorrinolaringología, Terapéutica y rehabilitación, Diagnóstico diferencial, Granulomatosis de Wegener, Estenosis subglótica, Vasculitis, Anticuerpos anticitoplasma de neutrófilos |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Otolaryngology, Therapeutics and rehabilitation, Differential diagnosis, Wegener granulomatosis, Subglotic stenosis, Vasculitis, Neutrophil anticytoplasmic antibodies |
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