BACKGROUND According to the literature, the occurrence of dysphagia is high in cases of stroke, and its severity can be enhanced by loss of teeth and the use of poorly fitting prostheses. OBJECTIVE To verify that the status of oral health influences the level of oral intake and the degree of swallowing dysfunction in elderly patients with stroke in chronic phase. METHODS Thirty elderly indi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Critically ill patients represent a population with multiple risk factors for aspiration. Features such as decreased level of consciousness, mechanical ventilation, and comorbities as stroke, correlate with this increased threat in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Recognition of deglutition dysfunction may identify patients at high risk of aspiration, and thereby he...

increased the time to first asthma deterioration thus decreasing the proportion of subjects experiencing asthma deterioration during the study (MF/F 1⁄4 16.5%; versus MF 1⁄4 28.2% [P 1⁄4 0.006]; versus F 1⁄4 44.7% [P , 0.001]; and vs placebo 1⁄4 45.7% [P , 0.001]). Mean FEV1 AUC0–12h over baseline at week 12 were MF/F 1⁄4 4.00 L · h; MF 1⁄4 2.53 L · h; F 1⁄4 3.83 L · h; and placebo 1⁄4 1.11 L ·...

This study aims to examine any motility disturbance in any quadrant of the face other than the quadrant innervated by the lower facial nerve contralateral to the cortical lesion after stroke. Thirty-one stroke-afflicted patients with subjective dysphagia, consecutively referred to a swallowing centre, were investigated with a facial activity test (FAT) in all four facial quadrants and with a sw...

causing an inability of the epiglottis to retroflex adequately during deglutition. The epiglottis then acted as an impediment to swallowing, instead of moving out of the way of the food bolus. Cervical osteophytes were one cause of pharyngeal crowding. However, pharyngeal crowding was also seen after anterior cervical spine surgery due to an increase in pharyngeal wall thickness. We therefore i...