title: A study of pharyngeal symptoms caused by bronchofiberscopy.
abstract: We investigated the occurrence of pharyngeal symptoms in 100 patients who had undergone bronchofiberscopies by conducting a post-examination survey of the patients. Eighty-four patients complained of having a problem. Seventy-five patients, including 26 with dysphagia, complained of pharyngeal symptoms. The proportion with pharyngeal symptoms whose symptoms appeared on the day of examination was a high 89.4%. In 70.6% of cases, the duration of symptoms was less than four days. The pharyngeal symptoms were particularly common among patients who had undergone a bronchofiberscopy on a previous occasion or whose examination lasted for 15 min or more. A greater dysphagia incidence was noted among patients who had required an endotracheal tube (P = 0.03) and among those whose examination had lasted for 15 min or more (P = 0.01). Based on the results, we are now studying methods of alleviating pharyngeal symptoms, including dysphagia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Diseases, Tochigi Cancer Center, Utsunomiya.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suga
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yokoi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Miyazawa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010608:Pharyngeal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires