Upper airway obstruction in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
We report a case of recurrent airway obstruction episodes resulting from laryngeal hypermobility in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. A 44-year-old woman, with known Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, presented with recent onset of episodes of upper airway obstruction due to hypermobility of her larynx. A suitable conservative management strategy proved elusive and the patient finally underwent a thyrohyoidopexy. The patient remains symptom free nine months after the procedure. This is the first report of spontaneous life threatening upper airway obstruction due to hypermobility of the suprahyoid suspensory soft tissues in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
1 Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust , UK.
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Chatzoudis
2 Swansea University , UK.
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Kelly
1 Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust , UK.
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Lancaster
1 Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust , UK.|3 Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool , UK.
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Jones
D000328:Adult; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004535:Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D058753:Laryngoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D007828:Laryngoscopy; D007830:Larynx / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Airway obstruction; Ehlers–Danlos syndrome; Larynx