Clinical Significance of Aspiration Pneumonia and Diffuse Aspiration Bronchiolitis in the Elderly

Diffuse aspiration bronchiolitis due to achalasia.

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Aspiration pneumonia and dysphagia in the elderly.

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly, and the leading cause of death among residents of nursing homes. Oropharyngeal aspiration is an important etiologic factor leading to pneumonia in the elderly. The incidence of cerebrovascular and degenerative neurologic diseases increase with aging, and these disorders are associated with dysphagia a...

Risk of aspiration pneumonia in the elderly.

Aspiration pneumonia due to diffuse cervical hyperostosis.

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis previously has been reported to cause a number of extraspinal manifestations including dysphagia, respiratory distress, dysphonia and cervical myelopathy. We report a case of cervical DISH so extensive as to interfere with the swallowing mechanism and lead to aspiration. Patients with DISH who have mechanical compression of the posterior pharynx may be a...

Significance of chronic cough as a defence mechanism or a symptom in elderly patients with aspiration and aspiration pneumonia.

Although cough is one of the most common symptoms for which patients seek medical attention from primary care physicians and pulmonologists all over the world and is associated with deterioration in patients’ quality of life [1], the concise and distinct guideline is not extensively introduced. Thus, the recent ERS Task Force report ‘‘The diagnosis and management of chronic cough’’ is very help...