Dysphagia is a common problem in elderly patients and a rare manifestation of Graves' disease. We report a case of an 82-year-old male who presented with a 4-week history of dysphagia and weight loss. Workup for his dysphagia with upper endoscopy, MRI brain, electromyography, acetyl-cholinesterase receptor antibodies, and voltage-gated calcium channel antibodies were negative. Modified Barium s...

Bulbar weakness and fatigue resulting in dysphagia and dysarthria is common in myasthenia gravis. In chronic MG it is often assumed that these symptoms herald an exacerbation of the patient's disease and doses of cholinergic agents and immunomodulatory therapies may be increased, along with initiation of plasma exchange. A case is presented in which dysphagia was refractory to standard MG thera...

INTRODUCTION Critically ill patients can develop acute respiratory failure requiring endotracheal intubation. Swallowing dysfunction after liberation from mechanical ventilation, also known as post-extubation dysphagia, is common and deleterious among patients without neurologic disease. However, the risk factors associated with the development of post-extubation dysphagia and its effect on hos...

herein, we present the case of a 45-year-old woman with pulsion and midesophageal diverticula, who had complaints of dysphagia and regurgitation. diagnosis was confirmed by endoscopy and barium swallow. the patient underwent right posterolateral thoracotomy with excision of diverticula and repair of the muscular layer along the site of diverticula. five days following the operation, barium swal...

multiple esophageal diverticula is a rare entity that may be seen in the course of esophageal motor disorders. herein, i reported a 45 year-old man presented with intermittent chest pain and dysphagia since 20 years ago that exaggerated during the last six months. barium swallow and upper gi endoscopy revealed multiple diverticula along the esophagus and his esophageal manometry showed high amp...

background: limited data available about the mechanisms of dysphagia and areas involving swallow after brain damage; accordingly it is hard to predict which cases are more likely to develop swallowing dysfunction based on the neuroimaging. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between brain lesions and dysphagia in a sample of acute conscious stroke patients. materials and m...

We would like to highlight the article titled “Analysis of the Level of Dysphagia, Anxiety, and Nutritional Status before and after Speech Therapy in Patients with Stroke.” This study analyzed the nutritional status, oral ingestion, dysphagia level, and anxiety before and after speech therapy in patients diagnosedwith stroke. Twelve patients (mean age 64.6 years) without cognitive disorders and...

Dysphagia is a complication that often occurs and triggers the occurrence of aspiration pneumonia death from stroke. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) muscle strengthening therapy sensorimotor recovery with can improve swallowing function. This study aims to find evidence effectiveness NMES on function in stroke patients dysphagia. The method used this research systematic review throu...

Introduction: The Videofluoroscopic Dysphagia Scale (VDS) is used to predict the long-term prognosis of dysphagia in patients with strokes. However, inter-rater reliability VDS was low a previous study. To overcome mentioned limitations VDS, modified version (mVDS) created and clinically applied evaluate its usefulness choosing feeding method for stroke dysphagia. Methods: videofluoroscopic swa...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic clinicopathological entity characterized by large numbers of intraepithelial eosinophils infiltrating the esophageal mucosa. The inflammation leads to alterations in the caliber and the motility of the organ, which determines esophageal symptoms, especially dysphagia and frequent food impaction. Firstly described in 1978, EoE represents today an incre...