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Isolated Dysphagia in a Patient with Medial Medullary Infarction - Effects of Evidence-Based Dysphagia Therapy: A Case Report.

Samra Hamzic, Patrick Schramm, Hassan Khilan, Tibo Gerriets, Martin Juenemann

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Article in Case reports in neurology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. Dosages of swallowing exercises in stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2023
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Samra HamzicDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Patrick SchrammDepartment of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.
Hassan KhilanStroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Gesundheitszentrum Wetterau, Friedberg, Germany.
Tibo GerrietsDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Martin JuenemannDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg · DEJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medial medullary infarction (MMI) is a vascular occlusion in the medulla oblongata leading to certain constellations of neurological symptoms and seriously affecting the patient. Effective evidence-based treatment of severe dysphagia as sole symptom of MMI has not yet been reported. This case study aims to report successful effects of evidence-based therapy based on findings of dysphagia symptoms and pathophysiology of swallowing by flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) in severe isolated dysphagia after MMI. FEES was performed to evaluate swallowing pathophysiology and dysphagia symptoms in a 57-year-old male with severe dysphagia after MMI. On the basis of FEES findings, simple and high-frequent evidence-based exercises for improvement of swallowing were implemented: thermal stimulation of faucial arches, Jaw Opening Exercise, and Jaw Opening Against Resistance. After 7 weeks of high-frequent evidence-based therapy and regular FEES evaluation the patient was set on full oral diet with no evidence of aspiration risk. In a first case report of isolated dysphagia in MMI our case illustrates that high-frequent evidence-based dysphagia therapy in combination with FEES as the method to evaluate and monitor swallowing pathophysiology can lead to successful and quick rehabilitation of severely affected dysphagic patients.

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Case reportDysphagiaDysphagia therapyEvidence-based therapyFlexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowingMedial medullary infarction

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PMID33976655
PMCPMC8077515
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