A 4-year-old boy developed sore throat and fever over the course of a day. By evening his temperature was 40°C, and he had developed low pitched inspiratory stridor. On arrival at the emergency room ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing an increase in cases of viral upper respiratory infections this week. WellSpan Pediatric Medicine Physicians across the Midstate are seeing upper ...

RECENT reviews of acute respiratory disease in childhood 1,2 have failed to emphasize the importance of epiglottitis. Unless physicians are cognizant of the clinical features of this rapidly ...

If you're a fan of comedian Sarah Silverman, you likely heard about her terrifying health scare last week — according to a post on her Facebook page, she was laid up in the intensive care unit being ...

Epiglottitis, or infection and inflammation of the epiglottis, is mainly caused by Haemophilus influenza type b and commonly affects children between ages 2 and 7 and adults with a depressed immune ...

A 66-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a one-day history of acute-onset severe throat pain, hoarseness, and dyspnea. She did not have any previous respiratory problems or ...

Sarah Silverman almost died last week from a terribly unfunny freak throat infection, but true to form, the comedian found a way to make it both hilarious and thought provoking. File this under ...

Eat, drink and be merry. And thank your epiglottis, themarvelous flap of cartilage in your throat that makes the first twoacts possible. Make that all three: If you couldn’t eat or drink,you wouldn’t ...

A 4-year-old boy developed epiglottitis with fever, sore throat and inspiratory stridor over the course of an afternoon. By direct epiglottic culture group G Streptococcus was identified as the ...