What does V/P stand for?

PRESENCE AND ABSENCE OF CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF VCFS SYNDROME IN THE PATIENT DESCRIBED NOT SYSTEM FEATURE NOTED NOTED Psychiatric Developmental disability X History of psychosis X Otological Ear abnormality X Hearing loss X Craniofacial Microcephaly X Abundant scalp hair X Narrow palpebral fissures X Widely-set eyes X Prominent nose X Squared nasal root X Narrow alar base X Deficient malar area X Large maxilla X Short chin X Cleft secondary palate X Velopharyngeal incompetence X Musculo-skeletal Short stature X Slender limbs X Hypotonia X Hyperextensible hands and fingers X Cardiac Heart defects / Tetralogy of Fallot X

Over the 3 months prior to consultation, he had noticed mild hypernasal speech and velopharyngeal insufficiency evidenced by nasal regurgitation of solid and liquid oral intake.

Abstract The velopharyngeal closure mechanism acts as a valve to separate the oral and nasal cavities during speech and swallowing.

Based on the patients' medical diagnosis, subjects are assigned to one diagnostic category 1) cleft lip and palate (N = 32), 2) cleft palate (N = 35), 3) cleft lip (N = 9), 4) speech disorder typically velopharyngeal incompetency with no structural defect) (N = 12), or (5) facial deformity (typically a handicapping malocclusion) (N = 16).

Disturbances in nasal resonance may be caused in part by the inability of deaf speakers to monitor velopharyngeal valving with auditory feedback.

A 23-year-old oboe player was found to have velopharyngeal incompetence after complaining of a 6-year history of "nasal snorting" that would begin after 10 minutes of continued playing.

Telescopic videonasopharyngoscopy captured the image as the hypermobile tongue came up through the velopharyngeal opening into the nasopharynx (figure, E and F).

It has been implicated in such postoperative complications as velopharyngeal insufficiency and nasopharyngeal stenosis.