Acute and chronic laryngitis: symptoms
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Symptoms of laryngitis are hoarseness, coughing and difficulty breathing. For acute forms is characterized by a sudden onset of the disease with a general good condition or with a slight malaise. Body temperature remains normal or increases to subfebrile digits for catarrhal acute laryngitis. Febrile temperature, as a rule, reflects the attachment of inflammation of the lower respiratory tract or the transition of the catarrh of the larynx to the phlegmonous. For infiltrative and abscessing forms of acute laryngitis, severe sore throat, swallowing, including fluid, marked intoxication, increasing symptoms of stenosis of the larynx are characteristic. The severity of clinical manifestations directly correlates with the severity of inflammatory changes. The general condition of the patient becomes severe. Perhaps the development of phlegmon all and mediastinitis, sepsis, abscessed pneumonia.
With chronic laryngitis, a persistent impairment of the voice function develops, sometimes a cough, a sore throat with a voice load. With edeminal-polypositis laryngitis, development of respiratory failure as a consequence of stenosis of the third degree larynx is possible. For edema Reinke characterized by signs of hirsutism in women, a tendency to edema of the face.
With long-term laryngitis, hypertrophy of the vestibular larynx develops due to the formation of false-lining phonation.
Classification of acute and chronic laryngitis
Laryngitis is divided into acute and chronic.
Forms of acute laryngitis:
- catarrhal;
- hydropic:
- phlegmonous (infiltrative-purulent):
- infiltrative;
- abscessing.
Forms of chronic laryngitis:
- catarrhal;
- edema-polyposis (Reinke-Gayek disease);
- atrophic;
- hyperplastic:
- limited;
- diffuse.
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