Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children who aspirated thin or thickened liquids achieved resolution of swallowing dysfunction after a year of ...

Background and aims: Coordination of breathing and swallowing must be precise for maintenance of airway protection and prevention of aspiration. The phases of respiration are interrupted during ...

Timely and efficient upper esophageal sphincter (UES) opening may be critical to safe transport of food or liquid to the stomach and to prevent aspiration during the swallow. The purpose of this study ...

If you inhale something instead of swallowing it or if stomach contents back up and enter your airway, you experience aspiration. Some people may experience complications, including infections.

Our ability to swallow is something we rarely think about — until it becomes all we can think about. Managing swallowing disorders (known as dysphagia) or helping older adults with the inability to ...

Strong supportive evidence of effectiveness is not available for many dysphagia treatments so clinicians need to use best available evidence to support therapy choice Unlike compensatory strategies, ...

Patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exhibit a disordered breathing-swallowing pattern that may account for their higher risk of aspiration pneumonia, ...

Don Bolser owns shares in Respiratory Engineering Solutions, a startup company that is developing a device to improve swallowing. He receives funding from the National Institutes of Health to study ...

Children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare autosomal recessive disease that results in progressive muscle weakness and atrophy, can suffer the concerning consequences of dysphagia, which ...