Electrocautery in Endobronchial Therapy
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administration of levodopa significantly improved the swallowing reflex in patients with aspiration pneumonia,4 and that amantadine, a drug that acts by the releasing dopamine from dopaminergic nerve terminals, could lower the risk of pneumonia to about 20% in patients with stroke.5 Therefore, amantadine may also be beneficial in preventing pneumonia in patients with stroke. This drug should be useful to reduce the risk of aspiration pneumonia in elderly patients with hypotension or airway hyperreactivity, for which the use of ACE inhibitors would be relatively risky.
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