Section: 
Science articles
Science articlesThe treatment of voice disorders in the patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases
N. A. Daikhes (1), N. M. Kotel’nikova (1), E. V. Osipenko (1), I. A. Mikhalevskaya (1), Yu. S. Krivykh (1)
(1) Clinical Centre of Otorhinolaryngology, Moscow, 123182, Russia
UDK: 616.22-008.5:616.72-002.77 -08-039.73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2020-1-25-36
ABSTRACT
The article covers the issues of specific features of the laryngeal pathology and the methods in managing the patients with voice disorders associated with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. A group of 25 patients with various autoimmune rheumatic diseases aged from 12 to 70 years was examined and underwent complex conservative treatment, including inhalation therapy and phonopedics, in Department of Phoniatrics of Clinical Research Centre of Otorhinolaryngology of Federal Medico-Biological Agency of Russia. All the patients were female. The article highlights the importance of individual and multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of voice disorders in the patients of this category. The article reflects the basic principles of application and the advantages of inhalation therapy over other methods of drug delivery to the larynx. The article outlines the main trends in the treatment of voice disorders and shows the efficacy of phonopedics in such conditions of the larynx as subatrophic chronic laryngitis, bamboo nodes of vocal folds. Based on the study conducted and the literature data analysis, the authors show the reasonableness and efficacy of a complex conservative treatment, including inhalation therapy and phonopedics, of voice disorders in the patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases.
Publication date:
13.02.2020
Keywords:
voice disorder, laryngeal pathology, autoimmune rheumatic disease, phonopedics, inhalations, dysphonia, Sjogren syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, laryngitis, hoarseness. For citation:
Daikhes N. A., Kotel’nikova N. M., Osipenko E. V., Mikhalevskaya I. A., Krivykh Yu. S. The treatment of voice disorders in the patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2020;19(1):25–36. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2020-1-25-36