Sore throat in rheumatoid arthritis: 2 patients with cricoarytenoid arthritis

Jol, J.A.; van Deelen, G.W.; Dinant, H.J.

Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 141(32): 1567-1570

1997


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2162
PMID: 9543752
Document Number: 472905
In two patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis, a woman aged 65 and a man aged 56 years, cricoarytenoid arthritis was diagnosed. The symptoms were hoarseness, sore throat and stridor. In both patients a narrowed glottic fissure was found. In one patient tracheostomy was necessary to guarantee a free airway; in the other, therapy with local corticosteroid injections (triamcinolone), combined with immunosuppressive therapy (prednisone), was effective. Early detection through anamnesis and laryngoscopy allows early therapy with a good prognosis.

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