Care of patients with dysphagia includes screening, diagnosis, treatment and management.
This article examines the increasing evidence that to be most effective each of these aspects …

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Dysphagia is defined as difficulty swallowing. The precise incidence of dysphagia is …

The complexity of swallowing has been long appreciated and was described before the
development of a sophisticated modality for direct viewing of the swallowing process. This …

The amount of time a speech-language pathologist spends caring for patients with
dysphagia has increased over the past 20 years. One reason is that referring professionals …

It has been exactly 25 years since we started working on the treatment of patients with
dysphagia. I cannot forget to emphasize and thank two great teachers that I had at the …

In the past decade, speech-language pathologists have taken a leading role in the
management of services for patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia. This article presents the …

Patients with dysphagia are often inappropriately managed. However, nurses can be trained
to screen for swallowing difficulties and the introduction of an interdisciplinary dysphagia …

The major symptoms indicative of oropharyngeal or esophageal disease include dysphagia
(difficulty in swallowing); odynophagia (painful swallowing); regurgitation; pyrosis …

Get a quick, expert overview of the many aspects of the evaluation and management of
dysphagia from a team of experts in the field, led by otolaryngologists Drs. Dinesh K. Chhetri …