(1) All patients presented with severe oropharyngeal dysphagia and frequent aspiration together with pharyngooral and pharyngonasal regurgitation.
(2) Patients were divided into two groups based on etiology of dysphagia (central neurologic vs local mechanical dysfunction).
(3) The main side effect was dysphagia, which appeared to be dose related in individual patients.
(4) A patient presenting with dysphagia and weight loss was found to have a large midesophageal mass.
(5) Experience from the use of feeding plates for babies with cleft palate and from the treatment of dysphagia in patients recovering from stroke led to the design of a simple intraoral appliance.
(6) Carefull angiographic investigation can avoid misjudging the symptoms (stridor, dysphagia) and can contribute to an exact diagnosis thus preventing unnecessary operation.
(7) Complications, such as superficial ulcers, dysphagia, and strictures, were observed in 14%, 7% of emergency, and 3% of elective patients.
(8) The children (a two-year and a three-year old boy), who seemed completely healthy, sudden suffered from acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract with dyspnea, inspiratory stridor, fever, dysphagia, and flow of saliva.
(9) A case of massive DISH in the cervical spine causing dysphagia is described.
(10) Failure to complete feeds, dysphagia, vomiting, coughing, choking and recurrent respiratory symptoms were also significantly more common in this group than in the primary anastomosis group (labeled as group A) even in the absence of stricture.
(11) Eighteen patients complained of dysphagia, but only in 12 of them did endoscopy show esophagitis.
(12) Twenty-four Bouviers with dysphagia were examined between October 1986 and October 1988.
(13) Dysphagia was progressive in all 15 and, in most cases, preceded the onset of other severe brain stem signs.
(14) However, this graft may cause dysphagia by discoordination of contractions, retrograde propulsion of a bolus, or a sustained local contraction, demonstrating the clinical problems associated with free jejunal graft reconstruction of the cervical esophagus.
(15) However, dysphagia occurred in pigs kept alive for more than a month and the main reason was malfunction of the device because of surrounding fibrosis.
(16) Records from 910 patients referred to our clinical esophageal manometry laboratory for evaluation of noncardiac chest pain between January 1983 and December 1985 were reviewed and compared with records from 251 patients referred for dysphagia.
(17) Recurrent ossifications were detected in them some years after surgery, and one of them complained of dysphagia again.
(18) This serendipitous observation antedates clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia.
(19) The most important manometric abnormality was the feeble contractions of the pharyngeal musculature, more pronounced in patients with severe dysphagia (grade II).
(20) Six refused because of excellent relief of their dysphagia, and one was denied operation.
Dysphagy
Definition:
(n.) Difficulty in swallowing.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to elucidate the pharyngo-esophageal segment in normal and abnormal conditions the width of the pharyngo-esophageal junction area on three different levels: hypopharynx, infracricoid segment of the cervical esophagus (ICCO) and cervical esophagus was measured in 150 non-dysphagial volunteers and in 252 dysphagial patients examined with cineradiography during barium swallowing.
(2) A 69-year-old woman was examined because of progressive dysphagie.
(3) Cineradiography of the pharyngo-esophageal segment in 252 dysphagial patients disclosed a posterior impression in 55 (22%).