Asthma is an obstructive pulmonary disorder with exacerbations characterized by symptoms of shortness of breath, cough, chest tightness, and/or wheezing. Symptoms are caused by chronic airway inflammation. There are multiple…
Consideration of the unified airway model when managing patients with rhinitis and or asthma allows a more comprehensive care plan and therefore improved patient outcomes. Asthma is linked to rhinitis…
Karen H. Calhoun, MD, FACS, FAAOA, Editor As otolaryngologists, we are trained to think, first, of surgical airway emergencies requiring tracheostomy or other urgent surgery; second, we think about nasal obstruction….
We review the therapies for primary headache disorders: migraine, chronic migraine, tension-type headache, and cluster headache. Recommendations follow the evidence-based treatments so far as is possible with expert opinion to…
This article reviews the definition, etiology and evaluation, and medical and neurosurgical treatment of neuropathic facial pain. A neuropathic origin for facial pain should be considered when evaluating a patient…
Vertiginous headache encompasses patients with dizziness or vertigo as well as headache, even though the symptoms may not occur in an obvious temporal relationship. The type of dizziness experienced by…
This article clarifies the current state of knowledge of chronic oral, head, and facial pain (COHFP) conditions with the inclusion of temporomandibular joint disorders as just one component of the…
Secondary headaches are classified by the cause of the underlying disease process that is causing the headache. There are hundreds of secondary headache diagnoses and this article is not an…
Key points • Patients will believe pain or pressure over the sinus region is originating from the sinuses until you can prove otherwise, either by endoscopy or CT scan. •…
As advanced imaging became available and the technology progressed to provide more and more highly detailed images of the nervous system, it was often joked that the role of the…
