PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | dysphagia |
| Phenotype | C0018799|heart disease |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 23917513 | Other possible risk factors fororopharyngeal dysphagia in people with heart disease are: prolonged tracheal intubation,dependence on mechanical ventilation, presence of a tracheostomy tube, manipulation orcompression of cranial nerve pairs involved in swallowing and use of drugs that increasedysphagia, in addition to the physiological changes common in elderly patients, especiallythose with comorbidities, that may interfere in the different phases of deglutition andcontribute to the emergence of dysphagic symptoms1,2. |
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