ALLMedicine™ Dysphagia Center

Jun 26th, 2022 - The choice between endoscopic surgery and re-radiotherapy as the main treatment modality in patients with advanced recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (rNPC) remains controversial. Therefore, in this study, we compared the efficacies of endoscopic ...

Jun 26th, 2022 - Chicago Classification version 4.0 (CCv4.0) introduced stringent diagnostic criteria for oesophagogastric junction outflow obstruction (EGJOO), in order to increase the clinical relevance of the diagnosis, although this has not yet been demonstrat...

Jun 26th, 2022 - Clinical Conundrum: Dysphagia Associated with Sleep Disorders.|2022|Iacolucci CM,Urso D,Zoccolella S,Vitulli A,Barone R,|

Jun 25th, 2022 - Transoral surgery (TOS) has been widely used to treat laryngopharyngeal cancers. Although TOS is a minimally invasive procedure, postoperative complications, such as postoperative dysphagia, may occur, which can lead to a poor quality of life for ...

Jun 25th, 2022 - Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection usually causes mild symptoms in children. However, serious complications may occur as a result of both acute infection or in association with the multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). Dysphagia may develop as ...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Epigastric pain can have multiple etiologies including myocardial infarction, pancreatitis, acute aortic syndromes, gastroesophageal reflux disease, esophagitis, peptic ulcer disease, gastritis, duodenal ulcer disease, gastric cancer, and hiatal h...

Apr 12th, 2021 - Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a combination of autonomic failure plus cerebellar syndrome and/or parkinsonism. Dysphagia is a frequent and disabling symptom in MSA and its occurrence within 5 years ...

Aug 11th, 2020 - Achalasia is an esophageal motility disorder characterized by aberrant peristalsis and insufficient relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter. Patients most commonly present with dysphagia to solids and liquids, regurgitation, and occasional ch...

Aug 10th, 2020 - Esophageal symptoms are common and may indicate the presence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), structural processes, motor dysfunction, behavioral conditions, or functional disorders. Esophageal physiologic tests are often performed when ...

Aug 2nd, 2020 - On April 14, the Society of Swallowing and Dysphagia of Japan (SSDJ) proposed its position statement on dysphagia treatment considering the ongoing spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The main routes of transmis...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPC) is an autosomal recessive, lysosomal storage disorder characterized by accumulation of cholesterol and gangliosides. NPC is a rare (estimated prevalence of 1:120,000-150,000) neurodegenerative disorder with a wide...

Jun 24th, 2022 - In order to reduce the rate of spontaneous intragastric migration of esophageal stent placed for gastroesophageal junction tumor, anti-migration device has been developed. Pilot studies suggest the absence of morbidity of this device, but no compa...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - Aspiration by high risk esophageal and lung cancer patients with either preexisting or post-therapy/post-operative dysphagia leads to morbidity (pneumonia) and mortality following surgery. The aim of this study is to reduce pathologic aspiration a...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - A Taiwanese study pointed out that stroke patients who have language barriers, dysphagia, and aspiration pneumonia are more likely to suffer from prolonged hospitalization. Improvements in dysphagia and subsequent complications in patients should ...

Jun 21st, 2022 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To demonstrate non-inferiority in terms of progression-free survival (PFS) of concurrent reduced-dose radiation therapy (RT) with cisplatin or concurrent reduced-dose radiation therapy with nivolumab to the current standard ...

Jun 13th, 2022 - Three conditions seen in primary care—gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection, and Barrett esophagus (BE)—evolve in a gastric acid environment and are treated in part through gastric acid suppression. While.

Apr 22nd, 2022 - Use of per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for esophageal achalasia increased dramatically during the past decade, a retrospective study found, and while the procedure appears just as safe as laparoscopic Heller myotomy (LHM), it led to greater hea...

Apr 18th, 2022 - People with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) may run an increased risk of mood disorders, anxiety, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and should be screened for those conditions, researchers say. "It's important to know that there i...

Apr 4th, 2022 - Editor's Note: The Case Challenge series includes difficult-to-diagnose conditions, some of which are not frequently encountered by most clinicians but are nonetheless important to accurately recognize. Test your diagnostic and treatment skills us...

Apr 1st, 2022 - CASE Fixated on health and nutrition At the insistence of her daughter, Ms. L, age 75, presents to the emergency department (ED) for self-neglect and severe weight loss, with a body mass index (BMI) of 13.