Inspiratory Dyspnea Improved by a Partial Epiglottidectomy ; a Case Report

Abstract

We reported on a 27-year-old male with inspiratory dyspnea because of an epiglottic deformity. The symptom is similar to laryngomalasia. Sleep apnea was not evident from the results of a sleep study conducted from 2000 to 2008. Neither a deviatomy of nasal septum nor thoracoplasty for funnel chest was able to improve the inspiratory dyspnea. The symptom was managed eventually by a partial epiglottidectomy.
　The patient is doing well without obvious complications.