A 29-year-old man experienced hoarseness that progressed to
aphonia 4 days before his office visit.
Cannabis use is also associated with respiratory-type problems such as dyspnoea, pharyngitis,
aphonia and asthma exacerbation.
Although symptoms such as loss of consciousness, paralysis, blindness, or
aphonia are seldom observed in western countries, they are common in developing countries (15,42,43).
The signs of the disease are progressive muscle weakness, hypotonia, myopathy, respiratory failure, hepatosplenomegaly, difficulty in feeding,
aphonia, weakness in tongue, macroglossia, and inability to control oral secretions [8].
I said to myself, I'm not getting anywhere, I'm going to burn the esophagus, indeed, then,
aphonia, of course, because of the gastric juices, the teeth, a lot of problems in your mouth, due to the tooth enamel erosion, that's it, but, well, I realized too late, that's all (Estela).
Reported voice disturbance occurrence distribution in professional and student groups PG SG Type of voice disturbance n % n % Roughness 7 23.3 1 3.3
Aphonia 2 6.6 1 3.3 Vocal fold gap 1 3.3 0 0.0 Hoarseness or vocal fatigue 1 3.3 0 0.0 Hoarseness in teenage 1 3.3 0 0.0 Cannot reach high pitches 1 3.3 0 0.0 Low voice 0 0.0 1 3.3 Nasal voice 0 0.0 1 3.3 Vocal cyst 0 0.0 1 3.3 * Descriptive analysis Caption: PG= professional group; SG=student group; n=number of subjects; %=percentage of subjects Table 3.
Hoarseness of voice presents at birth or in early childhood and becomes prominent within the first few years of life; it can progress to complete
aphonia (4, 5).
Results from a study of patients reporting to a tertiary care psychiatric facility in Abbottabad showed that 35% patients of dissociation presented with the symptoms of pseudoseizures, 16% had symptoms of paralysis, 12% reported with tremors, 13% had
aphonia or mutism, 6% each presented with gait disorders and difficulty in swallowing while 4% with blindness and 3% with anaesthesia or sensory loss10.
Aphonia is observed in 25 patients (52.08%) if the injury is involving larynx.
In some cases distress can trigger hoarseness (dysphonia) or even total voice loss (
aphonia).
"Media
Aphonia: The World-wide Failure of Media Pre-warning on the Financial Tsunami".
The first clinical sign of lipoid proteinosis is hoarseness of voice caused by infiltration of vocal cords.245 It can become prominent in early years of life and can progress to complete
aphonia.10 Mucosa of lips tongue and pharynx develop firm and yellow white infiltrates.
D'or threw up in response to the physiological fear state and her terror of sexual dysfunction; she entered a fugue state for a period of seven hours, during which she also suffered
aphonia and crying convulsions.
