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Bruce D. Edison, MD; Jack D. Kerth, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1973;98(3):205-207.

Abstract
Two more cases of cor pulmonale secondary to enlarged tonsils and adenoids are added to the literature. There exists a wide spectrum of individual response to upper airway obstruction both in the degree of obstruction necessary to precipitate cardiac failure and in the physiologic manner in which the person responds to this stress.

Adenoidectomy alone has been done on several patients with good results, while tonsillectomy was sufficient to reverse the disease process in others. Once, it was necessary to return the patient to the operating room after adenoidectomy because of a poor response and to perform a tonsillectomy which carried with it an eventual satisfactory result.

Author Affiliations
Chicago

From the Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Northwestern University Medical Center, and the Department of Otolaryngology, Cook County Hospital, Chicago.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 27, 1972.

Reprint requests to Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Northwestern University Medical Center, 303 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 (Dr. Edison).

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