...Tomoo Mano; Masahisa Katsuno; Haruhiko Banno; Keisuke Suzuki; Noriaki Suga; Atsushi Hashizume; Amane Araki; Yasuhiro Hijikata; Seiya Tanaka; Jun Takatsu; Hirohisa Watanabe; Masahiko Yamamoto; Gen Sobue Background: Dysphagia due to bulbar involvement is a major symptom of patients with spinal...

... are seen in certain types of hereditary ataxia, such as spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3). Dysphagia is a common symptom that can predispose to aspiration pneumonia, a major cause of death in patients with these diseases. Although the progressions of dysphagia in patients with MSA-C have been reported...

...Marina de Tommaso; Angela Nuzzi; Anna Rita Dellomonaco; Vittorio Sciruicchio; Claudia Serpino; Claudia Cormio; Giovanni Franco; Marisa Megna Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterised by motor impairment, cognitive decline and psychiatric disorders. Dysphagia...

...Shinichiro Maeshima; Aiko Osawa; Fumitaka Yamane; Shoichiro Ishihara; Norio Tanahashi Objective: A high incidence of dysphagia is seen during the acute phase of cerebral haemorrhage; however, there have been only rare reports of dysphagia caused by thalamic haemorrhage. We studied cases of thalamic...

...Ryo Momosaki; Masahiro Abo; Wataru Kakuda; Go Uruma Purpose: The purpose of this study is to clarify cortical areas related to the development of dysphagia in poststroke patients using novel analytic methods for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging. Subjects and Methods...

...Kuni Konaka; Jugo Kondo; Nobuko Hirota; Kenichi Tamine; Kazuhiro Hori; Takahiro Ono; Yoshinobu Maeda; Saburo Sakoda; Hiroaki Naritomi Background: Although poststroke dysphagia is an important issue for determining prognosis, the pathophysiology of oral-phase dysphagia has yet to be clarified due...

...C. Coates; A.M.O. Bakheit The prevalence of dysphagia and its relationship to the nutritional status of the subject was examined in 53 patients with Parkinson''s disease (PD). Forty-three patients (81%) had swallowing difficulties but this was mild in most of them. The nutritional status...

...Maurizio Paciaroni; Giovanni Mazzotta; Francesco Corea; Valeria Caso; Michele Venti; Paolo Milia; Giorgio Silvestrelli; Francesco Palmerini; Lucilla Parnetti; Virgilio Gallai Background: Dysphagia is common after stroke. We aimed to study the prognosis of dysphagia (assessed clinically) over...

... year of the disease in 10 cases, and 69% of the cases were diagnosed with stridor within the first 4 years. Dysphagia and hoarseness had a statistically higher frequency in the stridor group, and the onset period of these elements correlated with the onset of stridor. A follow-up study of survival...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Malnutrition Nutritional status Anthropometry Diet Dysphagia Original Paper Eur Neurol 1998;40:159 163 Received...