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Clinical Significance of Surgical Intervention to Restore Swallowing Function for Sustained Severe Dysphagia
Owing to rapid population aging, patients with dysphagia are significantly increasing in society. Dysphagia treatment is aimed at the restoration of the swallowing function and the prevention of recurrent aspiration-induced pulmonary infection. However, despite intensive rehabilitation, oral food in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10488804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37685624 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12175555 |
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author | Ito, Hiroaki Nagao, Asuka Maeda, Suguru Nakahira, Maya Hyodo, Masamitsu |
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description | Owing to rapid population aging, patients with dysphagia are significantly increasing in society. Dysphagia treatment is aimed at the restoration of the swallowing function and the prevention of recurrent aspiration-induced pulmonary infection. However, despite intensive rehabilitation, oral food intake remains inadequate in many patients with severe dysphagia, which results in the deterioration of patients’ quality of life and joy of living. Surgical intervention may serve as a useful therapeutic strategy to restore swallowing function in these patients. The study included 25 patients (mean, 70.4 years; male/female ratio, 20:5) with chronic dysphagia. Dysphagia was associated with cerebrovascular diseases in sixteen patients; with age-induced physiological deterioration in five patients; and with miscellaneous etiologies in four cases. Cricopharyngeal and infrahyoid myotomies were performed in all patients. Laryngeal elevation and the medialization of the paralyzed vocal fold were performed in 15 and 3 patients, respectively. The Food Intake Level Scale (FILS) and videoendoscopic examination score (VEES) were used to evaluate swallowing function. The FILS showed a restoration of oral food intake alone in 72% of patients, and 64% of patients maintained this improvement at their last follow-up visit. We observed significantly improved VEES scores postoperatively. However, patients with cognitive impairment or advanced age showed poor outcomes. In conclusion, surgical intervention may be an effective therapeutic option to restore swallowing function in cases of sustained severe dysphagia; however, surgical indications require careful consideration. |
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spelling | pubmed-104888042023-09-09 Clinical Significance of Surgical Intervention to Restore Swallowing Function for Sustained Severe Dysphagia Ito, Hiroaki Nagao, Asuka Maeda, Suguru Nakahira, Maya Hyodo, Masamitsu J Clin Med Article Owing to rapid population aging, patients with dysphagia are significantly increasing in society. Dysphagia treatment is aimed at the restoration of the swallowing function and the prevention of recurrent aspiration-induced pulmonary infection. However, despite intensive rehabilitation, oral food intake remains inadequate in many patients with severe dysphagia, which results in the deterioration of patients’ quality of life and joy of living. Surgical intervention may serve as a useful therapeutic strategy to restore swallowing function in these patients. The study included 25 patients (mean, 70.4 years; male/female ratio, 20:5) with chronic dysphagia. Dysphagia was associated with cerebrovascular diseases in sixteen patients; with age-induced physiological deterioration in five patients; and with miscellaneous etiologies in four cases. Cricopharyngeal and infrahyoid myotomies were performed in all patients. Laryngeal elevation and the medialization of the paralyzed vocal fold were performed in 15 and 3 patients, respectively. The Food Intake Level Scale (FILS) and videoendoscopic examination score (VEES) were used to evaluate swallowing function. The FILS showed a restoration of oral food intake alone in 72% of patients, and 64% of patients maintained this improvement at their last follow-up visit. We observed significantly improved VEES scores postoperatively. However, patients with cognitive impairment or advanced age showed poor outcomes. In conclusion, surgical intervention may be an effective therapeutic option to restore swallowing function in cases of sustained severe dysphagia; however, surgical indications require careful consideration. MDPI 2023-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10488804/ /pubmed/37685624 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12175555 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ito, Hiroaki Nagao, Asuka Maeda, Suguru Nakahira, Maya Hyodo, Masamitsu Clinical Significance of Surgical Intervention to Restore Swallowing Function for Sustained Severe Dysphagia |
title | Clinical Significance of Surgical Intervention to Restore Swallowing Function for Sustained Severe Dysphagia |
title_full | Clinical Significance of Surgical Intervention to Restore Swallowing Function for Sustained Severe Dysphagia |
title_fullStr | Clinical Significance of Surgical Intervention to Restore Swallowing Function for Sustained Severe Dysphagia |
title_full_unstemmed | Clinical Significance of Surgical Intervention to Restore Swallowing Function for Sustained Severe Dysphagia |
title_short | Clinical Significance of Surgical Intervention to Restore Swallowing Function for Sustained Severe Dysphagia |
title_sort | clinical significance of surgical intervention to restore swallowing function for sustained severe dysphagia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10488804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37685624 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12175555 |
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