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Adapting Human Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study Methods to Detect and Characterize Dysphagia in Murine Disease Models
Published on: March 1, 2015
Dysphagia following vagotomy
Abstract:
Dysphagia is a fairly common complication of vagotomy but has received little attention in the literature. The authors reviewed the hospital records of 79 patients who underwent highly selective vagotomy or truncal vagotomy with various types of drainage. Overall, 11 patients (13.9%) suffered from dysphagia, which was generally of short duration. The incidence of dysphagia was significantly (p less than 0.001) higher after highly selective vagotomy than after truncal vagotomy (60% versus 7.2%). There was no significant difference between the occurrence of dysphagia after elective compared with emergency truncal vagotomy. The dysphagia usually resolves spontaneously and requires no specific therapy.
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