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Oropharyngeal dysphagia is the inability to swallow food or drink. The condition can also cause breathing difficulties, choking, and drooling. Oropharyngeal dysphagia can occur due to various ...

Swallowing is a basic function that many of us take for granted — until a problem occurs, making daily tasks like drinking and eating a major challenge. Dysphagia is the medical term used to describe ...

Such cases of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) are rare, but they can be treated with the typical therapies for EoE. Dysphagia is a common symptom of the inflammatory condition eosinophilic esophagitis ...

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Respiratory patterns and sEMG may indicate dysphagia in patients with myasthenia gravis. Dysphagia affects about 70% of patients with myasthenia gravis and can lead to myasthenic crisis, necessitating ...

Patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion who received an application of local steroid at the conclusion of the cervical plating had better patient-report outcomes for dysphagia than ...

Swallowing is a complex function that is often taken for granted. As individuals age, physiologic changes can contribute to increased difficulty in swallowing. 1 Healthy older adults as well as those ...

For decades, stroke patients with swallowing difficulties have routinely received crushed tablets to reduce the risk of ...

Dysphagia simply means “difficulty swallowing,” but sufferers say that description doesn’t even scratch the surface of what it feels like to have this super-common yet rarely discussed condition. “For ...

While swallowing is considered an effortless, reflexive action, it's actually quite a complicated and coordinated maneuver ...

Taking a careful history is vital for the evaluation of dysphagia. The history will yield the likely underlying pathophysiologic process and anatomic site of the problem in most patients, and is ...