UNLABELLED To identify the grade and evolution of dysphagia and dysphonia in patients undergoing supracricoid laringectomy, and to study the association of these findings with clinical and surgical variables. METHOD The study included 22 cases undergoing supracricoid laringectomy at the Head and Neck Surgery and Otolaryngology Department of the Heliopolis Hospital - Brasil, and referred to sp...

Abstract Background Dysphagia is described as any disruption in the normal swallowing starting from preparatory transport of a bolus oral cavity through both pharynx and esophagus down to stomach. The purpose this study detect different symptoms dysphonic patients with non-neoplastic vocal fold lesions consider potential benefit therapy hand voice intervention strategies. Methods Arabic Eating ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory rheumatological disease affecting the axial skeleton with various extra-articular complications. Dysphagia due to a giant anterior osteophyte of the cervical spine in AS is extremely rare. We present a 48-year-old male with AS suffering from progressive dysphagia to soft foods and liquids. Esophagography showed an anterior osteophyte at C5-C...

RATIONALE Dysphagia following stroke is a major complaint among patients, and effective treatment of post-stroke dysphagia can be difficult. We present a case report describing a new treatment for dysphagia, namely, quick needle insertion at pharyngeal acupoints. PATIENT CONCERNS A 70-year-old man developed pharyngeal dysphagia after a stroke. Three months after the patient experienced a sudd...

Study Design Retrospective case series. Objective Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) or Forestier disease involves hyperostosis of the spinal column. Hyperostosis involving the anterior margin of the cervical vertebrae can cause dysphonia, dyspnea, and/or dysphagia. However, the natural history pertaining to the risk factors remain unknown. We present the surgical management of two...

Plummer-Vinson syndrome is known as the association of postcricoid dysphagia, upper esophageal web, and iron deficiency anemia. Although correction of iron deficiency may result in resolution of dysphagia and sometimes disappearance of the webs, dilation therapy is usually necessary to remove webs and relieve dysphagia. We report two cases of Plummer-Vinson syndrome. Both patients presented wit...

O b j e c t i v e s : To examine whether augmented nutrition therapy (Volkert et al. 2006, Williams 2006) improves the general rehabilitation outcome of patients with neurogenic dysphagia compared to neurologic patients without dysphagia. S u b j e c t s / m e t h o d s : 127 stroke patients undergoing postacute multidisciplinary neurorehabilitation approach were routinely screened for neurogen...

A study was conducted to investigate the association of anaemia with dysphagia and cricoid webs in an adult Indian hospital population of 2,840 patients (1,200 males and 1,640 females). There were 150 cases (5.2%) of anaemia in the total population studied. One hundred and seventeen patients suffered from iron deficiency anaemia and only 33 from non-iron deficiency anaemia. Dysphagia was presen...