FEASIBILITY STUDY ON SWALLOWING TELEREHABILITATION IN PATIENTS WITH CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019.

Objective: Direct swallowing rehabilitation assessment in patients with highly infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, is not recommended. We aimed to explore the feasibility of using telerehabilitation for managing dysphagia in patients with COVID-19 in isolated hospital rooms.

Design: Open-label trial.

Improvement in Tongue Pressure Precedes Improvement in Dysphagia in Dermatomyositis.

Dysphagia is known to occur in patients with dermatomyositis. However, the sudden-onset dysphagia without other symptoms can make diagnosis and treatment challenging. Two patients who did not have a severe muscle weakness complained of the sudden inability to swallow solids and liquids.

[A case of the palatal tremor that disappeared during swallowing, thought to be caused by microbleeds of bilateral dentate nucleus].

A 72-year-old female presented with slowly progressive dysphonia, which was a syllable-separated utterance, for three years. She had the rhythmic continues contraction of palatal and uvula muscles during speech with a frequency of about 2 Hz. The videoendoscopy showed that the rhythmic contraction, which synchronized in the nasopharynx and the larynx, did not disappear during vocalization.

Treatment of transient prosopagnosia with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor in a case of brain metastasis from EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma.

Background: Prosopagnosia is a rare form of apraxia, in which a person has normal memory and vision, but has impaired cognition of human faces that are manifested through symptoms such as not being able to recognize the face of a familiar person, one has known or not being able to remember the face of a person. Here, we report the case of a patient with transient prosopagnosia associated with brain metastasis from epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated lung adenocarcinoma who was treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).

Case Description: A 52-year-old right-handed man with lung adenocarcinoma was introduced to our department because brain metastasis.

Oropharyngeal dysphagia telerehabilitation in the Intensive Care Unit for COVID-19: a case report.

The face-to-face assessment of and training for dysphagia are considered aerosol-generating procedures, and thus are contraindicated for patients who are positive or suspected of having severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. Considering the extremely infectious nature of the virus, transmission to other individuals during rehabilitation is possible. Some patients in the intensive care unit and those who are on endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation often have dysphagia.