Publications by authors named "Sonja Sauer"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to compare two diagnostic methods—videofluoroscopy and swallowing endoscopy—for evaluating oropharyngeal dysphagia by analyzing how well they identify issues like penetration, aspiration, and pharyngeal residue in 49 patients.
- - Both methods showed strong agreement in their findings, although each had unique strengths; videofluoroscopy sometimes detected issues invisible to endoscopy, while the latter provided better views of anatomical structures.
- - Narrow-band imaging was tested during swallowing endoscopy, showing slightly higher scores in some cases, but no significant overall difference was found between this and standard white light imaging.
Objective: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) is a mainstay treatment for severe and drug-refractory essential tremor (ET). Although stimulation-induced dysarthria has been extensively described, possible impairment of swallowing has not been systematically investigated yet.
Methods: Twelve patients with ET and bilateral VIM-DBS with self-reported dysphagia after VIM-DBS were included.
Introduction: Previous research has documented that pressure and duration of brainstem-generated pharyngeal swallowing can be cortically modulated. But there is a commonly held belief that the sequence of pharyngeal pressure remains constant. However, Huckabee et al.
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