Acute and Subacute Awake Injection Laryngoplasty for Thoracic Surgery Patients

Comparison of outcomes and complications between awake and asleep injection laryngoplasty: A Case‐Control Study

“…). Both awake and asleep IL techniques have been described elsewhere 9, 11, 12, 15, 17. Subjects were excluded if abdominal fat was used as the injection material or if pre‐ and postinjection of voice‐related quality of life (VRQOL) data was unavailable.…”

“…Injection laryngoplasty has traditionally been performed under general anesthesia in the operating room. Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in awake IL, a technique first reported in 1985 by Ward et al Awake IL has been demonstrated to be a safe and clinically comparable alternative to IL under general anesthesia 9–11. It can be performed transorally with a curved injection device or percutaneously through several different approaches 9, 12.…”

“…It can be performed transorally with a curved injection device or percutaneously through several different approaches 9, 12. Awake IL is less costly, has low complication rates, and avoids the risk of general anesthesia 1–5, 9–11, 13–17. One published report compares the clinical results of the two techniques but it focuses more on costs than on vocal outcome 13.…”

Early voice rehabilitation with injection laryngoplasty in patients with unilateral vocal cord palsy after thyroidectomy

“…This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of injection laryngoplasty using ArteSense TM which was performed in the early postoperative period following thyroid surgery. Voice rehabilitation with injection laryngoplasty which is performed within the subacute period (within 3 months) after the occurrence of VCP was considered as an early management for VCP [13]. Objective and subjective voice parameters were obtained before and 3 months after injection laryngoplasty and comparatively analyzed between the early and late injection groups.…”

Short-Term Treatment Results for Unilateral Vocal Fold Palsy Induced by Mediastinal Lesions

“…Because we usually perform this procedure to medialize the lateralized vocal fold for the patients with UVFP, we wondered whether treatment outcomes of UVFP with different etiologies can be sufficiently relieved by injection laryngoplasty. Previously, Grant et al 15 reported that acute and subacute stage UVFP is relieved by this procedure, but changes in each voice parameters were not evaluated. In this study, we measured voice parameters at 1 month postoperatively to evaluate early results of injection laryngoplasty because the procedureinduced swelling, and the injected material are redistributed in the vocal fold during some period.…”