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Dysphagia

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Synonyms

Deglutition disorder

Short Description or Definition

Dysphagia is a disorder in the preparation and/or transportation of food and/or liquid from the lips to the duodenum.

Categorization

Dysphagia is divided into several types, dependent on etiology and locus of symptomatology. In general, categories can be oral, oral-pharyngeal, pharyngeal, esophageal, and/or gastric.

Epidemiology

Over a lifetime, 1 in 17 people will develop a swallowing problem or dysphagia. In a 2011 study in the United Kingdom, the prevalence rate in the general community was 11%. The condition affects 40–70% of people with stroke. Patients with neurodegenerative diseases have a 60–80% incidence of dysphagia. In adults 65 and older, 11% may experience dysphagia, often related to gastric reflux. In the institutionalized elderly, the percentage rises to 51%. For patients who have experienced radiation treatments to the head and neck, the incidence of dysphagia is 60–75%.

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  1. School of Speech–Language Pathology and Audiology, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA

    Janis Lorman

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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation, Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Independent Practice, Wynnewood, PA, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Lorman, J. (2018). Dysphagia. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_883

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