A study of pharyngeal symptoms caused by bronchofiberscopy.
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.
Mori
K
K
Department of Thoracic Diseases, Tochigi Cancer Center, Utsunomiya.
Saito
Y
Y
Suga
Y
Y
Takahashi
T
T
Yokoi
K
K
Miyazawa
N
N
Tanaka
A
A
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