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Videofluorography swallow study of patients with systemic sclerosis.
Radiol Med
September 2009
Dipartimento Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicine Legale, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via M. Cefalu' 11, S. Flavia Palermo, 90017 Palermo, Italy.
Purpose: This study was undertaken to evaluate the role of the videofluorographic (VFG) swallow study in patients with systemic sclerosis.
Materials And Methods: Over a 23-month period, 45 women (mean age 58 years, range 27-76 years) with a known diagnosis of systemic sclerosis and a history of dysphagia underwent a dynamic and morphological study of the oral, pharyngeal and oesophageal phases of swallowing with videofluorography. All examinations were performed with a remote-controlled digital C-arm device with 16-in image intensifier, 0.
Phase 2 trial of leuprorelin in patients with spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.
Ann Neurol
February 2009
Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan.
Objective: Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a hereditary motor neuron disease caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the androgen receptor (AR). Animal studies have shown that the pathogenesis of SBMA is dependent on serum testosterone level. This study is aimed at evaluating the efficacy and safety of androgen deprivation by leuprorelin acetate in patients with SBMA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA cineradiographic study of deglutitive tongue movement in patients with anterior open bite.
Bull Tokyo Dent Coll
August 2003
Department of Orthodontics, Tokyo Dental College, 1-2-2 Masago, Mihama-ku, Chiba 261-8502, Japan.
The purpose of this study was to use cineradiographic images to investigate tongue movement during deglutition in anterior open bite patients with tongue thrust. Each subject had semi-spherical lead markers attached to the tip and dorsal surface of the tongue and was asked to swallow 5 ml of diluted liquid barium. Tongue movement during deglutition was recorded in the mid-sagittal plane with an X-ray VTR system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDigital cineradiographic swallow study: our experience.
Radiol Med
September 2002
Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Legale, Sezione di Scienze Radiologiche, Azienda Universitaria Ospedaliera Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Purpose: Swallowing disorders can be secondary to different types of diseases in which, at least initially, patients succeed in establishing voluntary or involuntary compensatory mechanisms that enable them to maintain a sufficient nutritional state. When the compensatory mechanisms become insufficient massive food aspiration into the airways can occur and suffocation may prove to be the main pathology. It has been calculated that in the USA about 8,000-10,000 people die each year due to suffocation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModern imaging for the assessment of gastroesophageal reflux disease begins with the barium esophagram.
J Gastrointest Surg
December 2000
Department of Surgery, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angees, USA.
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