An acute upper airway obstruction (UAO) is a blockage that occurs in your upper airway. The upper airway of your respiratory system consists of the trachea, larynx or voice box, and throat. A blockage ...

Acute airway obstruction from mega-esophagus is an extremely rare presentation of achalasia. We present the case of an 82-year-old woman without previously diagnosed achalasia who presented with ...

Airway obstruction by foreign bodies is rarely encountered in the neonatal intensive care unit. The majority of those cases reported are iatrogenic. This paper reports a case of acute airway ...

In a study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, a team of researchers from the United States (US) conducted a retrospective cohort study to determine if pediatric acute upper airway infection (UAI) ...

7 Department of Thoracic Medicine, St Olavs Hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway 8 Department of Circulation and Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, ...

Achalasia is an idiopathic motility disorder of the esophagus. Dysphagia for solids and liquids is the most common presenting symptom, but patients can be asymptomatic for long periods of time. Weight ...