Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 2
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Oropharyngeal dysphagia, an underestimated disorder in pediatrics

113-115

Esther Vaquero Sosa, Laura Francisco González, Andrés Bodas Pinedo, Cristina Urbasos Garzón y Antonio Ruiz de León San Juan

Abstract
Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a rather frequent clinical entity in patients with neurological problems that can lead to serious complications such as aspiration pneumonia and other disorders like dehydration or malnutrition due to feeding difficulties. It should be suspected in children with splitting of food intake or prolonged feeding, coughing or choking during feeding, continuous drooling or repeated respiratory symptoms. For the diagnosis, apart from the examination of swallowing, additional tests can be run like the water-swallowing test, the viscosity-volume test (which determines what kind of texture and how much volume the patient is able to tolerate), a fiberoptic endoscopy of swallowing or a videofluoroscopic swallow study, which is the gold standard for the study of swallowing disorders.
It requires a multidisciplinary approach to guarantee an adequate intake of fluids and nutrients with minimal risk of aspiration. If these two conditions cannot be met, a gastrostomy feeding may be necessary.
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Esther Vaquero Sosa, Laura Francisco González, Andrés Bodas Pinedo, Cristina Urbasos Garzón y Antonio Ruiz de León San Juan. Oropharyngeal dysphagia, an underestimated disorder in pediatrics. 113-115


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