The International BVFP Registry: Prospective Data Collection

Introduction Bilateral vocal fold paralysis (BVFP) is a rare disease mainly of iatrogenic origin that in most cases critically reduce the respiratory patency of the affected patients and in the worst cases may become life-threating. Currently it is mainly diagnosed by medical history and video(strobo)laryngoscopy assessment. Its current golden standard is surgical glottal enlargement or tracheotomy in emergency cases. No standardized diagnostic, treatment, and follow-up protocol exists for this disease, thus the comparison among the results obtained worldwide is difficult, as we showed in our previous publication of 329 retrospective cases within an international registry conducted in 11 hospitals in EU and Ukraine