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Role of fluid cohesiveness in safe swallowing
In patients with dysphagia, it has been a practice to thicken fluid food to prevent aspiration—the transport of a bolus into the trachea instead of the oesophagus. In these patients, aspiration is a risk behaviour and is closely related to pneumonia (caused by the aspiration of oral bacteria into th...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31304277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41538-019-0038-8 |