Oropharyngeal Dysphagia (OD) significantly decreases a patient’s quality of life and poses a high economic burden to institutions. In this sense, evaluation and assessment are important interventions for health professionals, although current tools and ...
Rafael A. Bernardes +4 more
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Nutrition risk in age-related residential care : prevalence and associated factors in adults of advanced age : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics, Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
Background: The New Zealand population is rapidly ageing. Adults of advanced age (≥85 years) are one of the fastest growing population groups with numbers expected to double by 2036.
Senior, Stacey Marie
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Background: Hyperkinetic dysarthria is characterized by abnormal involuntary movements affecting respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory structures impacting speech and deglutition.
Julie M. Barkmeier-Kraemer +1 more
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The Practicability of Transnasal Esophagoscopy and the Evaluation of Patient’s Perception: A Prospective Study [PDF]
Objectives Transnasal esophagoscopy (TNE) is a relatively new diagnostic procedure in the evaluation of patients with globus sensation and dysphagia. Enabling doctors to examine all of the upper aerodigestive system without the need for sedation, this ...
Bahtiyar Polat +3 more
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Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crônica e Transtornos de Deglutição: revisão de literatura [PDF]
TCC(graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciências da Saúde. Fonoaudiologia.Introdução: Pelas projeções dos órgãos de saúde e sociedades científicas da área, nas próximas décadas a DPOC será uma das cinco primeiras causas de ...
Rosa, Flávio Prado da
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Avaliação da deglutição em prematuros com mamadeira e copo [PDF]
Purpose:To compare the swallowing performance of premature infants using a cup and a bottle during the first offer of food by mouth.Methods:This study was carried out with preterm newborns who presented low weight at birth and no neurological illnesses ...
Chiari, Brasilia Maria +4 more
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Tactile thermal oral stimulation increases the cortical representation of swallowing [PDF]
Background Dysphagia is a leading complication in stroke patients causing aspiration pneumonia, malnutrition and increased mortality. Current strategies of swallowing therapy involve on the one hand modification of eating behaviour or swallowing ...
Inga K Teismann +56 more
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Value of the Cervical Auscultation in Patients Affected by Neurogenic Dysphagia
Introduction: The cervical auscultation is an instrumental resource used in the functional clinical phonoaudiological approach of feeding and the pulmonary auscultation is a semiotic method for clinical exploitation of the thorax and the heart. Objective:
Fontoura, Elisiane Godoy +1 more
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Swallowing patterns after adenotonsillectomy in children
Importance Hypertrophy of the pharyngeal and palatine tonsils can interfere with breathing, physical and cognitive development, and quality of life, including sleep quality.
Anete Antunes deOliveira Branco +4 more
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Viscosity Is Not a Parameter of Postdeglutitive Pharyngeal Residue: Quantification and Analysis with Scintigraphy [PDF]
The aim of this study was to explore the influence of viscosity on pharyngeal residue in normal healthy volunteers. Scintigraphy was used to measure pharyngeal residue in 11 healthy volunteers after swallowing three different substances (age = 20.2-48.3 ...
H. C. A. Bogaardt +3 more
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