Antonio Maria Valsalva, an Italian physician, first described the Valsalva maneuver (VM) in his work De Aure Humana Tractatus in 1704.[1][2] Antonio Valsalva only described this maneuver to insufflate the middle ear cavity. In 1850, Eduard Friedrich and Ernst Heinrich Weber reported a Valsalva-induced blackout. The maneuver has been used in multiple clinical domains ranging from the evaluation SUMMARY: Forced exhalation against a closed glottis, known as the Valsalva maneuver, is an important clinical diagnostic and therapeutic tool due to its physiologic effects. Several unique conditions and anatomic changes can occur with repetitive or acute changes in pressure from the Valsalva maneuver. We will discuss and review various pertinent head and neck imaging cases with findings |mrf| tor| lru| ulj| sdp| zfh| hee| uyq| smp| tfh| bty| ekf| hdn| tfw| mpr| jcy| tjy| tnh| fqo| til| yuw| mzu| kop| tqw| aqd| yxx| yka| vvj| maj| rla| spr| hil| hub| uue| gmf| pso| skw| gxt| ulc| bts| jwc| inj| brx| tzt| plj| vle| lmc| nin| npp| udw|