A teen developed paralysis of her vocal cords due to a Covid-19 infection, according to a report published in the January 2024 issue of Pediatrics. The acute infection led to progressive inflammation of the nerves that move the vocal cords open and closed, which resulted in severe enough breathing difficulty for the patient to undergo placement of a tracheotomy tube. The patient was treated at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston, with Dr. Christopher Hartnick as the lead surgeon and senior study author.
The patient, a 15-year-old female, developed a mild Covid-19 infection, followed a few days later by shortness of breath, shortness of breath, and loud, high-pitched squeaks when inhaling. This condition, known as inspiratory stridor, is rare. differently than healthy youth and adolescents. Examination of his larynx showed reduced mobility of either of his vocal cords, so that they closed when he tried to inhale. His diagnosis was bilateral vocal cord paralysis and, in the absence of other sources, was thought to be due to postviral inflammation of the nerves that move the vocal cords.
Doctors used various medications and remedy options, but the patient was still having trouble breathing. The surgical team made the decision to proceed with a surgical procedure to place a tracheostomy tube into the trachea, or trachea, bypassing the vocal cords, allowing the patient to breathe comfortably. Hartnick, a professor in the Department of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology and the Pediatric Airway, Voice and Swpermitting Center at Mass Eye and Ear, performed several surgeries that allowed the patient to breathe and speak safely. , with possible removal of the tracheostomy tube.
A year after her tracheostomy, with her vocal cords still unrestored, the patient underwent reconstructive airway surgery and had her tracheostomy tube removed and is now breathing well. Hartnick noted, “He didn’t need to graduate from high school with a tracheostomy. It is now effectively decunulated (meaning the tracheostomy tube has been removed), without any activity restrictions.
The post-Covid inflammatory infection that caused vocal cord weakness was due to inflammation around tiny nerves called recurrent laryngeal nerves, which make it less difficult for the vocal cords to act like when they breathe and speak. Covid infections are known in other nerves, such as the facial nerve, which causes facial weakness, the olfactory nerve, or olfactory sensation, which causes the loss or replacement of smell, as well as the nerves that move the eye muscles. In some cases, the function of those nerves resumes over time. , medication, olfactory therapy, or surgery. In other cases, facial weakness and loss or alteration of smell and taste, known as anosmia or dysosmia and dysgeusia, appear to be older, at least to date.
Some patients with Covid infections have suffered vocal cord weakness of one vocal cord, leading to hoarseness, swallowing issues and cough. This issue is more easily managed than when both vocal cords are affected.
Nearly one in four children in the U.S. has had a Covid infection since the onset of the pandemic. And as rare as this patient’s condition was, given the continued high prevalence of pediatric Covid cases, we will likely see other conditions that are either just as rare or even rarer than this teen’s condition.
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