Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative autosomal dominant disease characterized by choreatic and hypokinetic movements, disturbed behaviour, and cognitive decline. Pneumonia is the most common cause of death, followed by cardiovasculair diseases. It has been suggested that choking is the causative underlying factor for pneumonia in HD. As a detailed specification of the ty...

Background: Protein-calorie malnutrition is a common problem that develops in patients requiring management in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU). The use of durable enteral feeding tubes to help meet their nutritional needs has grown dramatically over that past three decades. However, prepyloric enteral feeding has been associated with increased aspiration risks. Hypothesis: We hypothesiz...

Chronic aspiration is a cause of life-threatening respiratory complications and repeated hospital admissions, particularly in children with neurological disabilities. Determining the source of aspiration is important for optimizing treatment. This report describes a simple technique to demonstrate salivary aspiration during fibreoptic bronchoscopy. A child with a history of recurrent pneumonia ...

Ten patients with pneumothoraces were treated by simple aspiration. Treatment was successful in seven after single or multiple aspirations. Only one of these pneumothoraces has recurred and surgical treatment was then required.

We are reporting, what we believe, is the first case of biopsy proven exogenous lipoid pneumonia in an Omani infant. Exogenous lipoid pneumonia is caused by aspiration of oily products .One reason is the traditional practice of giving infants oily products (Ghee) as in our patient.

Exogenous lipid pneumonia is an uncommon condition resulting from the aspiration or inhalation of fat or oil material. The prognosis in this entity is usually good and complications are rare. We report an unusual case of chronic lipid pneumonia complicated with massive haemoptysis who responded to steroid therapy after arterial embolization.

Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysms have classically been associated with the cavitary lesions of reactivation tuberculosis and termed Rasmussen's aneurysm. There have been relatively few case reports of pulmonary artery pseudoaneuryms arising secondary to cavitary pneumonia. We present a case of pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm occurring secondary to cavitating aspiration pneumonia that was treate...

嚥下障害の臨床現場では,治療・リハビリテーション を行う根拠として,嚥下造影法(VF:videofluoroscopic swallow study),嚥下内視鏡(VE:videoendoscopic evaluation of swallowing)による機能的評価を用いるこ とが多い.さらに嚥下関連筋の効果を評価するために, 筋電図(EMG),嚥下圧測定も実用化されつつある.近 年では,延髄或いは脳神経を電気あるいは磁気刺激によ る筋電図を測定し,下位ニューロンの評価を行う誘発筋 電図も報告されている.嚥下運動の脳機能画像としては, ニューロンの電気活動そのものをみているMEGと, ニューロンの電気活動に伴う脳血流量を間接的に評価す る fMRI,PET,fNIRS に分類される.さらに,咳誘発 検査などの感覚効果器を評価するもの,嚥下障害アウト カムとしての誤嚥を評価するシンチ...