ReviewJournal of asthma and allergy2017
Differentiating vocal cord dysfunction from asthma.
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- Are Athletic Coaches Aware of Exercise-Induced Laryngeal Obstruction in Children and Adolescents?Pediatric pulmonology · 2025Article
- Optimizing the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction.The Laryngoscope · 2025Article
- Economic Burden of Induced Laryngeal Obstruction in Adolescents and Children.The Laryngoscope · 2024Article
- Vocal cord dysfunction causing hypoxaemia in the postanaesthesia care unit.BMJ case reports · 2024Article
- Therapy Outcomes for Teenage Athletes With Exercise-Induced Laryngeal Obstruction.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023Article
- Current unmet needs and potential solutions to uncontrolled asthma.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2022Review
- Do not forget asthma comorbidities in pediatric severe asthma!Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
- Microbiome First Medicine in Health and Safety.Biomedicines · 2021Review
- A 10-year-old girl with acute shortness of breath.Paediatrics & child health · 2021Article
- Impact of comorbid conditions on asthmatic adults and children.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2020Review
- Environmental Exposures and Asthma in Active Duty Service Members.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2019Review
- Acute Severe Asthma in Adolescent and Adult Patients: Current Perspectives on Assessment and Management.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Review
- Current opinions for the management of asthma associated with ear, nose and throat comorbidities.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2018Review
- Confounders of severe asthma: diagnoses to consider when asthma symptoms persist despite optimal therapy.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2018Review
- Is it severe asthma or asthma with severe comorbidities?Journal of asthma and allergy · 2017Article
- Progress in diagnosis and treatment of difficult-to-treat asthma in children.Therapeutic advances in respiratory diseaseReview
- GEMA 5.3. Spanish Guideline on the Management of Asthma.Open respiratory archivesArticle
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Abstract
Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD)-associated symptoms are not rare in pediatric patients. Dyspnea, wheezing, stridor, chest pain or tightness and throat discomfort are the most commonly encountered symptoms. They may occur either at rest or more commonly during exercise in patients with VCD, as well as in asthmatic subjects. The phase of respiration (inspiration rather than expiration), the location of the wheezing origin, the rapid resolution of symptoms, and the timing occurring in relation to exercise, when VCD is exercise induced, raise the suspicion of VCD in patients who may have been characterized as merely asthmatics and, most importantly, had not responded to the appropriate treatment. The gold standard method for the diagnosis of VCD is fiberoptic laryngoscopy, which may also identify concomitant laryngeal abnormalities other than VCD. However, as VCD is an intermittent phenomenon, the procedure should be performed while the patient is symptomatic. For this reason, challenges that induce VCD symptoms should be performed, such as exercise tests. Recently, for the evaluation of patients with exercise-induced VCD, continuous laryngoscopy during exercise (such as treadmill, bicycle ergometer, swimming) was used. A definite diagnosis of VCD is of importance, especially for those patients who have been erroneously characterized as asthmatics, without adequate response to treatment. In these cases, another therapeutic approach is necessary, which will depend on whether they suffer solely from VCD or from both conditions.
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