Background: Aspiration pneumonia is the commonest cause of hospitalizations and death in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Among these patients, the relationships between severity of dysphagia, hospitalizations for related complications, and death are not robustly defined. Our aim was to characterize the relationship between PD-related oropharyngeal dysfunction and clinically relevant outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Limited data exist regarding myopathies with early or prominent dysphagia.
Methods: A retrospective study was performed (January 2003 to August 2019) to identify myopathy patients in whom dysphagia was the initial symptom or was disproportionately severe compared with limb weakness.
Results: Thirty-two patients were identified.
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