Syed Nusrat Raza, Asim Abbas, Qazi Ahsan, Rahat Zm, Javaid Iqbal, Nadeem Uddin Naqvi.
Adult acute epiglottitis – a rare happeninghappening.
Pak Armed Forces Med J Jan ;58(4):473-5.

Acute epiglottitis is a well-recognised life threatening infectious disease of children. However its prevalence in adults is so rare that most of the doctors are unaware of its existence, and still fewer may have had an experience of seeing a case. Therefore inability to even suspect such a disease in adult patient leads to failure in diagnosis of epiglottitis which in turn contributes to its continuing morbidity that may thus be much higher than in children. The diagnosis of acute epiglottitis in the adult population is difficult as respiratory distress may be absent [1]. There is a reported increase in the incidence of epiglottitis in the adult population [2]. In contrast to the aggressive management of epiglottitis in children; a more conservative approach has been advocated in adults [3]. We report a case of adult epiglottitis seen in ENT department of CMH Lahore.

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