Community-based group rehabilitation program for stroke patients with dysphagia on quality of life, depression symptoms, and swallowing function: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Community-based exercise programs have demonstrated potential for implementation in older adults; however, it remains imperative to ascertain whether this strategy will yield comparable benefit in stroke patients with dysphagia.

Methods: This was a single blinded, randomized, matched pairs clinical trial. Sixty-four stroke patients with dysphagia were recruited from patients who had been discharged the Rehabilitation Department of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University.

Characteristics of Tongue Pressure Measured by Novel Multisite Flexible Sensors in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients With Dysphagia.

Objective: To explore characteristics of tongue pressure changes in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients with dysphagia after radiotherapy using a novel system with multisite flexible sensors.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: Inpatient rehabilitation centers and community dwellings.

Neuromuscular electrical stimulation improves swallowing initiation in patients with post-stroke dysphagia.

Objective: More than half of post-stroke patients develop dysphagia, which manifests as delayed swallowing and is associated with a high risk of aspiration. In this study, we aimed to investigate the immediate effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on swallowing initiation in post-stroke patients using videofluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS) data.

Materials And Methods: This randomized, self-controlled crossover study included 35 patients with post-stroke dysphagia.

Recovery pattern analysis of swallowing function in patients undergoing total glossectomy and hemiglossectomy.

Objectives: To investigate the recovery process of swallowing function and ascertain swallowing pattern in patients undergoing total glossectomy (TG).

Materials And Methods: A cohort study was conducted in consecutive patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma who received TG/hemiglossectomy (HG) from May 2017 to December 2019. Exposure factors included tongue resection range (HG and TG) and postoperative radiotherapy (PRT and non-PRT).

Effect of Intensive Oropharyngeal Training on Radiotherapy-Related Dysphagia in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of intensive oropharyngeal functional training on swallowing in patients with dysphagia after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Methods: Fourteen patients with nasopharyngeal carcinomas and dysphagia after radiotherapy received intensive oropharyngeal training for two weeks. The Functional Oral Intake Scale (FOIS) and videofluoroscopic swallowing studies (VFSS) were used to evaluate swallowing function before and after intensive oropharyngeal training.

Prediction of postoperative lower respiratory tract infections in tongue cancer patients based on pretreatment swallowing function.

Objectives: This study investigated the predictive role of pretreatment swallowing function and surgical factors on postoperative and nosocomial lower respiratory tract infections (PN-LRTIs).

Subjects And Methods: A retrospective study for predicting PN-LRTIs from January 2017 to December 2018 at Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University. Patients who were newly diagnosed with tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) were enrolled.

Change in Excitability of Cortical Projection After Modified Catheter Balloon Dilatation Therapy in Brainstem Stroke Patients with Dysphagia: A Prospective Controlled Study.

Although the modified balloon dilatation therapy has been demonstrated to improve pharyngeal swallowing function post stroke, the underlying neural mechanisms of improvement are unknown. Our aims are (1) to investigate the effect of modified balloon dilatation on the excitability of corticobulbar projections to the submental muscle in dysphagic patients with brainstem stroke and (2) the relation between changes in excitability and pharyngeal kinematic modifications. Thirty patients with upper esophageal sphincter (UES) dysfunction due to unilateral brainstem stroke were recruited into two groups.

Evidence of cortical reorganization of language networks after stroke with subacute Broca's aphasia: a blood oxygenation level dependent-functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder that is a common consequence of stroke. The pathogenesis of the disease is not fully understood, and as a result, current treatment options are not satisfactory. Here, we used blood oxygenation level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate the activation of bilateral cortices in patients with Broca's aphasia 1 to 3 months after stroke.