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Dysphagia following acute stroke and its effect on short-term outcome

Author(s) -

Sani Abubakar,

Yusuf Rasheed

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

nigerian postgraduate medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261

H-Index - 19

ISSN - 1117-1936

DOI - 10.4103/npmj.npmj_96_17

Subject(s) - dysphagia , acute stroke , medicine , stroke (engine) , term (time) , outcome (game theory) , intensive care medicine , surgery , economics , physics , mathematical economics , quantum mechanics , tissue plasminogen activator , thermodynamics

Dysphagia is assciated with numerous medical conditions including stroke, and there are wide variations in reported frequency of dysphagia in stroke survivors in the literature. Dysphagia has been shown to be an important risk factor for aspiration pneumonia and has profound impact on survivors.

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