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Dysphagia in post Covid-19 Patients- a Prospective Cohort Study

Never in recent history has mankind been so severely and diversely affected by any disease like the COVID-19 infection. Many post-COVID complications have been mentioned in the literature and other platforms, of which post-COVID Dysphagia is a very distressing complaint. The severity of dysphagia ma...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Priyam, Khaund, Gautam, Agarwal, Vivek, Barman, Surajit, Baruah, Debika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9734353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36532228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-022-03177-z
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Sumario:Never in recent history has mankind been so severely and diversely affected by any disease like the COVID-19 infection. Many post-COVID complications have been mentioned in the literature and other platforms, of which post-COVID Dysphagia is a very distressing complaint. The severity of dysphagia may range from mild discomfort in swallowing to life-threatening aspiration. This paper aims to study post-COVID dysphagia, its various presentations, possible causative factors and diagnosis. Like any other new disease on the block, continuous study and research is the need of the hour, for us to be able to mitigate the damage already inflicted by this pandemic.