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Into the future: re-innervating the airway

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Perkins J.D.
In: BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018 by British Equine Veterinary Association
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SEP 15, 2018
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Currently, the standard treatment for recurrent laryngeal neuropathy (RLN) is prosthetic laryngoplasty, with the goal to permanently abduct the left arytenoid. This nonphysiological procedure has been modified during the last decades but still has undeniable adverse effects on upper airway health that can be clinically apparent or subclinical. A recent review of complications after prosthetic laryngoplasty describes complications including dysphagia, chronic coughing, loss of arytenoid abduction and wound inflammation and infection. Another more physiological treatment option for RLN is the reinnervation of the CAD with transplants of the first or second cervical nerve (C1, C2 respectively) ...

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Perkins, J. D. (2020) “Into the future: re-innervating the airway”, BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018. Available at: https://www.ivis.org/library/beva/beva-annual-congress-birmingham-2018/into-future-re-innervating-airway (Accessed: 12 September 2024).

Affiliation of the authors at the time of publication

Comparative Neuromuscular Diseases Laboratory, Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Lane, North Mymms, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL9 7TA, UK.

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  • Justin Perkins - Royal Veterinary College

    Perkins J.D.

    Senior Lecturer
    BVetMed MS CertES Dip ECVS MRCVS
    Clinical Sciences and Services and Structure & Motion Laboratory, Royal Veterinary College,
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