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17876732

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-9-18
pubmed:abstractText
Dysphagia is common after stroke and may result in malnutrition and aspiration. To prevent the risk of aspiration and to improve the nutritional status, patients with dysphagic stroke have to give up oral intake and become dependent on tube feeding. Restoration of the patients' ability to resume aspiration free oral feeding is important. A 55-year-old male presented following a brainstem stroke and dysphagia. He was treated with a free jejunal flap to divert food from the anterior mouth to the cervical esophagus. Although the flap underwent partial loss, this was reconstructed with a tubed deltopectoral flap, and following a revision procedure for stricture, the patient's diet was advanced to a regular diet. At follow-up, the patient was able to eat by mouth without tube feeding. The application of this diversion technique to treat patients with a medical disease (i.e., stroke) is a step toward resuming oral feedings in this group of patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0743-684X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
283-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-2-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Surgical treatment of persistent dysphagia in stroke patients using a newly reconstructed conduit from the anterior mouth.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Plastic Surgery, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, R.O.C.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports