Swallowing disorders after ischemic stroke

Swallowing disorders after ischemic stroke.

OBJECTIVE To investigate occurrences of swallowing disorders after ischemic stroke. METHOD This was a retrospective study on 596 medical files. The inclusion criterion was that the patients needed to have been hospitalized with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke; the exclusion criteria were the presence of associated cardiac problems and hospital stay already more than 14 days. RESULTS 50.5% we...

Substance P and swallowing after stroke

Rehabilitation After Ischemic Stroke

Background and Purpose: Permanent neurological deficits after ischemic stroke are primarily determined by the location and size of an infarct, but social recovery and rehabilitation also depend on the functional status of brain tissue outside the infarct. Since neuronal loss and functional deactivation in peri-infarct tissue are reflected as changes in flow and metabolism, measurement of glucos...

Swallowing disorders.

The oropharyngeal swallow mechanism is comprised of several behaviours that change systematically or occur randomly. The systematic changes are dependent on the bolus characteristics (i.e. volume and viscosity) and voluntary control. An oropharyngeal swallow is rapid (less than 2 s), and videofluoroscopy is required to determine which muscles or nerves are damaged in dysphagic patients. Once th...

Movement disorders after stroke.

Many different types of hyperkinetic and hypokinetic movement disorders have been reported after ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke. We searched the Medline database from 1966 to February 2008, retrieving 2942 articles from which 156 relevant case reports, case series and review articles were identified. The papers were then further reviewed and filtered and secondary references found. Here we r...