Seeing the Forest Through the Wheeze: Laryngeal Involvement in ...
Seeing the Forest Through the Wheeze: Laryngeal Involvement in ...
Seeing the Forest Through the Wheeze: Laryngeal Involvement in ...
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Hypo<strong>the</strong>sis for ILS<br />
• Develops as reaction to some sort of CNS change that<br />
leaves sensorimotor pathways <strong>in</strong> state of hypersensitivity<br />
• # of possible causative factors<br />
• Several can be active <strong>in</strong> any one patient<br />
• Most prevalent<br />
– Emotional distress<br />
• Stress component vs. psychogenic cause<br />
– Habitual <strong>in</strong>appropriate rest<strong>in</strong>g posture of laryngeal musculature<br />
– LPRD<br />
– Post-viral illness<br />
• Viral neuropathy