Hypophonia Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes

Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent, persistent, disabling, and costly psychiatric disorders, yet they are often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Fortunately, there have been major advances in understanding and treating these conditions in recent years; this is one of the most exciting areas in modern[…] [books.google.com]

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Dementia

42-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of diffuse headache of moderate intensity and gradual onset of generalized weakness, imbalance, apathy, memory decline, hypophonia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Parkinson's Disease Type 3

[…] dressing, and bathing) Difficulty turning in bed Remaining in a certain position for a long period of time Nonmotor symptoms Diminished sense of smell Low voice volume (hypophonia [columbianeurology.org]

He had moderate masked facies and moderate hypophonia. There was intermittent resting tremor in all 4 extremities, more marked on the left side of his body. [jamanetwork.com]

There was asymmetric bradykinesia and rigidity associated with hypomimia and hypophonia. [clinicalmovementdisorders.biomedcentral.com]

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Parkinson Disease

Supporting parkinsonian features include stooped posture, masked facies, micrographia (small handwriting), drooling, speech changes (eg, hypophonia or soft speech, stuttering [dx.doi.org]

[…] feelings of depression or anxiety increase in dandruff or oily skin lack of facial expression ( hypomimia ) less frequent blinking and swallowing lowered voice volume ( hypophonia [medbroadcast.com]

[…] eating, dressing, and bathing) Trouble turning in bed Staying in a certain position for a long period of time Non-motor symptoms Diminished sense of smell Low voice volume (hypophonia [cedars-sinai.org]

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Juvenile Paralysis Agitans of Hunt

Hypomimia- “masked facies”,expressionless face, blinking Speech abnormalities- Hypophonia: soft voice Aprosody of speech: monotonous and lack of inflection Tachyphemia: do [slideplayer.com]

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Genetic studies have shown that C9orf72, SOD1, TARDBP and FUS are the most common mutated genes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Here, we performed a meta-analysis to determine the mutation frequencies of these major ALS-related genes in patients with ALS. We performed an extensive literature research[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Respiratory Muscle Paralysis

A 34-year-old lady presented with generalised weakness of body, indistinguishable from myasthenia gravis within 24 hours of a wasp sting. Respiratory muscle paralysis leading to respiratory failure developed and mechanical ventilatory support was required. The patient made an uneventful recovery. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Parkinson-Dementia Syndrome

Treatment of Parkinson hypophonia with percutaneous collagen augmentation. Laryngoscope. 1999 Aug. 109(8):1295-9. [Medline]. Kim HJ, Jeon BS, Paek SH. [emedicine.medscape.com]

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Vocal Cord Dysfunction

Presented the case of an 11-year-old boy with vocal-cord dysfunction (VCD) as an example of a rare clinical phenomenon that may result in clinical and systemic challenges for the pediatric psychologist. VCD presents as highly similar to asthma, yet is best treated with speech therapy and psychosocial intervention.[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Dermatomyositis

Her symptoms progressed, including severe dysphagia, hypophonia and weakness preventing sitting. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Dementia with Lewy Bodies

We describe a 72-year old man with clinical features suggestive of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) who proved neuropathologically to have degeneration induced by relapsing polychondritis (RP), an autoimmune inflammatory disorder of cartilaginous tissues. There was lymphocytic infiltration of the leptomeninges,[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Postencephalitic Parkinson Disease

Treatment of Parkinson hypophonia with percutaneous collagen augmentation. Laryngoscope. 1999 Aug. 109(8):1295-9. [Medline]. Kim HJ, Jeon BS, Paek SH. [emedicine.medscape.com]

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Bradykinesia

Hypomimia, hypophonia, and monotonous speech are also manifestations of bradykinesia. Bradykinesia can be mistaken for depression. [toolkit.parkinson.org]

Other manifestation of bradykinesia include hypophonia, hypomimia, and monotonous or dull speech. [healthylifemed.com]

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Young-Onset Parkinson Disease

YOPD speakers reported voice symptoms of hypophonia, tremor, hoarseness, monotone, and impaired speech intelligibility. [drum.lib.umd.edu]

Hypophonia Hypophonia is muffled or low voice volume as a result of lack of coordination in vocal musculature. [igeaneuro.com]

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Secondary Parkinsonism

Abnormalities in speech Dysarthria, hypophonia and monotonous soft speech can occur due to bulbar dysfunction and thought to be due to orofacial–laryngeal bradykinesia and [medicaljoyworks.com]

[…] symptoms and commonly seen in men, and commonly affects the legs where there are moments of motor blocks in walking. [1] [2] Abnormalities in speech [1] [2] Dysarthria, hypophonia [explainmedicine.com]

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Classic Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Syndrome

Patients present with a gradual onset of unsteadiness or slowness of gait initially and hypophonia, which then progresses to gait freezing and start hesitation, but in the [movementdisorders.org]

The speech and writing freezing leads to hypophonia and micrography, respectively. [eyewiki.aao.org]

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Posterior Cerebral Artery Occlusion with Infarction

Acute bilateral thalamic infarction as a cause of acute dementia and hypophonia after occlusion of the artery of Percheron. [elsevier.es]

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Psychogenic Movement Disorders

Stuttering was the most common speech abnormality (n 16, 53.3 %), followed by speech arrests (n 4, 13.3 %), foreign accent syndrome (n 2, 6.6 %), hypophonia (n 2, 6.6 %), [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] voice disorders are also relatively common in patients with psychogenic movement disorders, in which patients may experience stuttering, speech arrest, lower speech volume (hypophonia [bcm.edu]

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Hemochromatosis

Within months of the diagnosis of HH, he developed right upper limb resting tremor followed by rigidity, bradykinesia and hypophonia. [doi.org]

He had facial hypomimia, mild hypophonia, rigidity, and bradykinesia of the left upper and lower extremities, as well as a slow shuffling gait with reduced left arm swing. [cambridge.org]

Case 3 A 63 year old male presented with a 6 month history of lower limb and body tremor, hypophonia, and subjective gait instability. [doi.org]

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Pallidopyramidal Syndrome

Tremors, hypophonia, stooped posture, scissoring gait, hyperreflexia and Babinski sign may be present. [bioline.org.br]

Pill-rolling tremor, hypomimia, hypophonia, stooping posture, striatal toes and equinovarous deformity may be noted. [neurologyindia.com]

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Posterior Cerebral Artery Occlusion

Acute bilateral thalamic infarction as a cause of acute dementia and hypophonia after occlusion of the artery of Percheron. [elsevier.es]

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Jugular Foramen Syndrome

[…] a case of a 74-year-old man who presented with progressive dysphagia and dysarthria and was also found to have tongue deviation on the right side, left palatal droop and hypophonia [healio.com]

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X-linked Parkinsonism-Spasticity Syndrome

Loss of facial expression occurs early, while decreased eye blinking, hypophonia and impaired swallowing leading to sialorrhoea are later features. [annalsofian.org]

Patients may report difficulty with fine motor tasks, such as doing-up buttons; a change in speech with a quiet, monotonous voice (hypophonia); or an increase in saliva because [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

IPD where ocular movements are initially spared. [1], [18] The bulbar involvement is early with initially a nasal spastic dysarthria (leads to growling and groaning) and hypophonia [annalsofian.org]

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Hereditary Late-Onset Parkinson Disease

Communication Difficulty with speech with severe dysarthria, hypophonia, tachylalia, and freezing of speech is another problem associated with late-stage PD and leads to significant [hindawi.com]

Treatment of Parkinson hypophonia with percutaneous collagen augmentation. Laryngoscope. 1999 Aug. 109(8):1295-9. [Medline]. Kim HJ, Jeon BS, Paek SH. [emedicine.medscape.com]

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Essential Tremor

In addition bradykinesia, hypomimia, micrographia, hypophonia, tachyphemia, flexed posture, and reduced arm swing were noted as present or absent. [doi.org]

[…] these patients had signs of parkinsonism in their clinical chart from the Center for Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders; bradykinesia, hypomimia, micrographia, hypophonia [doi.org]

[…] pronation-supination of each hand 10-15 times, and 10-15 taps with each foot), hypomimia (the face was filmed for 2 minutes), micrographia (2 spirals were drawn with each hand), hypophonia [doi.org]

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Extrapyramidal Disorder

Hypophonia is a pathological loss of power in the voice. 26-1. What are the functions of the extrapyramidal system? Answer 26-1. [dartmouth.edu]

Features Nonmotor Features Bradykinesia Rest tremor Rigidity Gait disturbance/postural instability Micrographia Masked facies (hypomimia)equalize Reduced eye blink Soft voice (hypophonia [slideshare.net]

Other common symptoms include: mask face, stooped posture, increased flexor tone, drooling, shuffling, seborrhea, orthostasis, decreased blinking, soft voice (hypophonia). [dartmouth.edu]

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Arachnoiditis

We report a boy aged 17, presenting with hearing impairment and recurrent vomiting for 18 months, weight loss for 12 months, dysphagia, dysarthria, hypophonia for 6 months [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Palmar Abscess

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Lyme Meningoencephalitis

“He developed a shuffling, widebased gait without rigidity, predominantly left-sided bradykinesia, marked intention tremor, postural tremor, hypomimia, hypophonia, and positive [danielcameronmd.com]

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Diencephalic Syndrome

Speech varied from hypophonia to normal; handwriting varied from legible script to gross scrawl. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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