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Indications to manometric measurements in patients complaining for esophageal disorders are discussed. Such symptoms most frequently include: dysphagia, heartburn, and angina-like pain after exclusion of the coronary artery disease. Radiological and endoscopic examinations should precede esophageal motility measurements to eliminate organic causes of patients' complaints. Initial manometric measurements may be repeated after the application of pharmacologic stimuli or functional tests. Most frequent esophageal motor disorders have been described.
Pol Tyg Lek 1996 Apr
PMID:[Manometric examination in diagnosis of esophageal motility disorders]. 896 71

The authors present a case of 60-year-old woman who suffered from a mycosis (Candidosis) infection of the ectopic lingual thyroid gland. Intensive inflammatory process caused enlargement of lingual goiter and dysphagia occurred consequently. Right diagnosis was made after scyntygraphic examination (the presence of lingual thyroid gland only), as well as histopathological and microbiological examinations which revealed the presence of Candida forms. Recovery was achieved after 5 weeks of antifungal treatment--Diflucan during a 2-week initial period, then followed by 3 weeks of local treatment with nystatin.
Otolaryngol Pol 1998
PMID:[Mycosis infection (candidiasis) of the lingual thyroid gland]. 959 32

Degenerative changes in the cervical spine can produce osteophytes of the anterior margins of the cervical vertebrae. Although cervical osteophytes have been reported to cause many complications, most remain clinically silent. Very few cases of pharyngeal dysphagia and pseudotumoral bulging of pharyngeal wall resulting from cervical osteophytes have been described. Dysphagia in these cases is caused either by mechanical obstruction or by paraoesophageal inflammation due to irritation at the osteophytes processes. We present a case of 63 year-old patient suffering dysphagia secondary to cervical osteophytes. ENT examination reveal bulged wall of the hypopharynx resemble the tumor. The diagnosis was established by conventional X-ray of the spine and CT. We investigated this case fully to rule out an alternative pathology.
Otolaryngol Pol 1997
PMID:[Dysphagia due to diffuse degenerative changes in the cervical spine]. 964 46

Amyloidosis is a rare disease in otorhinolaryngology. It presents a wide range of clinical manifestations and its deposits can be found in various organs. In the paper, a case of a 73-year-old female patient with macroglossia, as a symptom of nodular amyloidosis is reported. The predominant features were dysphagia and speech impairment caused by the tongue protruding beyond the teeth. The histologic appearance consisted of a nodular pattern of amyloid deposition. The amyloid was of an AL (lambda-light chain) type as shown immunohistochemically. The presented case shows the importance of investigating the patient for co-existing disease.
Otolaryngol Pol 1998
PMID:Nodular amyloidosis of the tongue. 967 11

Voice quality was assessed in 37 patients with cancer of the larynx before and after supraglottic surgery. Subjective and objective spectrography method were applied to evaluate dysphony. A change of the voice colour was found, which was manifested in spectrography by decrease of formant levels, specially F3 and F4. Dysphagia and longer tracheostomy were temporary complications after the surgery, and caused later beginning of phoniatric rehabilitation.
Otolaryngol Pol 1998
PMID:[The voice function after horizontal laryngectomy]. 967 20

In a 49-year-old woman carcinoma planoepithelialie akeratodes of the right vocal cord was diagnosed. The lesion was removed with the Kleinasser's microsurgery procedure. During telecobaltotherapy, temporary oedema of the face and the neck as well as dysphagia appeared. Myxoedema due to insufficiency of the thyroid was diagnosed after four months since the end of the radiotherapy. Substitutional treatment resulted in the hormonal and clinical improvement of the patient.
Otolaryngol Pol 1998
PMID:[Myxoedema after radiotherapy of the laryngeal cancer]. 976 Jul 82

Compensatory treatment for oropharyngeal dysphagia includes postural changes and reducing the risk of aspiration. Some of compensatory maneuvers are introduced spontaneously by the ill at first weeks after oral cavity tumour resection. On the basis of roentgenotelevision examination of deglutition in 82 patients we detected mechanisms with intention to minimize swallowing disturbances. Variability of their occurrence and differences in their efficiency should be emphasized, as well as essential synchronization of laryngeal closure with emptying of pharynx and opening upper oesophageal sphincter for swallowing efficiency. The valuation of compensatory maneuvers introduced spontaneously by the ill was defined as an important part of swallowing rehabilitation.
Otolaryngol Pol 1999
PMID:[Mechanisms smoothing deglutition disorders after oral cancer surgery]. 1039 Oct 34

Swallowing disorders in oral and pharyngeal phase after surgery of mouth, pharynx or larynx are very often interrelated with speech and voice disorders. The results of diagnostic methods of dysphagia and voice/speech disorders based on own material of patients after total laryngectomy, partial tongue resection and cleft palate surgery were presented. Attention was also paid to other etiological factors of swallowing disorders observed in phoniatric practice.
Otolaryngol Pol 1999
PMID:[Dysphagia and speech disorders]. 1039 Oct 42

Diagnostics, differentiation and results of treatment for spondylogenic dysphagia in 8 male patients aged 50-69 (mean 57.7 years) have been presented. Non-steroid and steroid pharmacotherapy was successful in 6 patients. In 2 cases symptoms worsened and only surgical decompression of the esophagus was needed to eliminate dysphagia, persistent cough and hoarseness.
Chir Narzadow Ruchu Ortop Pol 1999
PMID:[Dysphagia in the course of degenerative changes of the anterior wall of the cervical spine]. 1049 47

We described a 47-year-old man with ischemic stroke who developed a brainstem syndrome with persistent dysphagia. He was fed by the nasogastric tube placed intermittently by himself for almost 7 months after the stroke. Elective feeding via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) was not accepted by the patient. All treatment attempts with benzodiazepines, antidepressants and spasmolytic agents were unsuccessful. Videofluoroscopic investigation revealed excessive and long-lasting spasm of the upper esophageal sphincter which was associated with the massive aspiration of the contrast. The patient dramatically improved after treatment with nitroglycerin and long-acting nitrates with almost complete recovery of normal swallowing. A strikingly good effect of nitrates in the treatment of oropharyngeal dysphagia is emphasized by the authors.
Neurol Neurochir Pol
PMID:[A case of neurogenic dysphagia responding to nitrates]. 1079 Oct 45


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