TY - JOUR
KW - Aged
KW - Aged, 80 and over
KW - Case-Control Studies
KW - Female
KW - Hoarseness
KW - Humans
KW - Laryngeal Diseases
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Prospective Studies
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW - Voice Disorders
AU - Palheta Neto FX
AU - Silva Filho M
AU - Pantoja Junior JMS
AU - Teixeira LLC
AU - Miranda RV
AU - Palheta ACP
AB - <p><b>UNLABELLED: </b>Leprosy is an infectious disease, with vocal involvement varying between hoarseness and difficult breathing.</p><p><b>AIM: </b>Compare the main vocal complaints among elderly patients after treatment for leprosy and a control group.</p><p><b>STUDY DESIGN: </b>Descriptive prospective.</p><p><b>MATERIALS AND METHODS: </b>We included 50 patients aged over 60 years, 32 had been treated for leprosy, and the others formed the control group. We used our own questionnaire to analyze the vocal symptoms presented by the two groups, as well as gender, age, life style and comorbidities.</p><p><b>RESULTS: </b>Among the treated group, the most frequent symptoms were hawk (34.4%) and hoarseness (28.1%), while in the control group the most prevalent symptoms were hoarseness (77.8%) and a foreign body sensation (55.6%).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION: </b>The most prevalent voice complaints in patients treated for leprosy are hawking and hoarseness, and that its development is influenced by life style and associated diseases.</p>
BT - Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20549074?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2010 Mar-Apr
DO - 10.1136/bmj.c3651
IS - 2
J2 - Braz J Otorhinolaryngol
LA - eng
N2 - <p><b>UNLABELLED: </b>Leprosy is an infectious disease, with vocal involvement varying between hoarseness and difficult breathing.</p><p><b>AIM: </b>Compare the main vocal complaints among elderly patients after treatment for leprosy and a control group.</p><p><b>STUDY DESIGN: </b>Descriptive prospective.</p><p><b>MATERIALS AND METHODS: </b>We included 50 patients aged over 60 years, 32 had been treated for leprosy, and the others formed the control group. We used our own questionnaire to analyze the vocal symptoms presented by the two groups, as well as gender, age, life style and comorbidities.</p><p><b>RESULTS: </b>Among the treated group, the most frequent symptoms were hawk (34.4%) and hoarseness (28.1%), while in the control group the most prevalent symptoms were hoarseness (77.8%) and a foreign body sensation (55.6%).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION: </b>The most prevalent voice complaints in patients treated for leprosy are hawking and hoarseness, and that its development is influenced by life style and associated diseases.</p>
PY - 2010
SP - 156
EP - 63
T2 - Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology
TI - Main vocal complaints of elderly patients after leprosy treatment.
VL - 76
SN - 1808-8686
ER -