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PubMed1978

Relationship between tubal function, craniofacial morphology and disorder of deglutition.

26 children without hearing impairment have been examined by otolaryngologists and orthodontists. According to the tubal function test in a pressure chamber they were classifed into a group with good and poor tubal function. The E.N.T. examination was unconclusive for a possible relationship between rhinological findings, mode of breathing, sinusitis, size of tonsils, nasal airway resistance and tubal function. Adenoids proved to be a mechanical impairment for active tubal function as stated by many authors. The cephalometric analysis of lateral head films combined with a static and dynamic-functional evaluation of tongue posture revealed significant differences between children with good and poor tubal function. Subjects with a vertical craniofacial growth pattern seem to be predisposed for poor tubal function. Analysing static tongue posture in children with poor tubal function the tongue lies more retracted in a backward position. The back of the tongue is flattened in relation to the palatal arch. In children with good tubal function there is a much closer contact between the back of tongue and the hard palate. Subjects with poor tubal function have an increased incidence of abnormal deglutition combined with tongue-thrust, teeth-apart swallowing, lack of sealing off the anterior oral cavity and contraction of the circumoral musculature. In children with good tubal function one can find the somatic type of swallowing that means no contractions of the circumoral muscles, no tongue-thrust during deglutition but contact of the molars and contraction of the masseter muscle.

Airway Resistance↗
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Aortic arch anomalies in adult disorders of deglutition.

Congenital vascular anomalies of the aortic arch are unusual etiologies of dysphagia in the adult. Swallowing abnormalities associated with compression of the esophagus primarily occur at birth or in the immediate neonatal period. However, as the result of arteriosclerotic vascular disease or aneurysm formation, anomalies which were asymptomatic postnatally may produce dysphagia in the adult. A retrospective analysis of 59 cases with aortic arch anomalies presenting initially in adulthood revealed characteristic clinical signs and symptoms. An aberrant right subclavian artery with left aortic arch was the most frequently encountered abnormality. The embryologic development of each vascular anomaly is described and the value of selective arteriography with contrast esophagography is stressed. Patients with minimal swallowing impairment are treated with dietary management alone. Surgical division of the anomalous artery is indicated only when severe dysphagia is associated with progressive life-threatening anorexia and weight loss.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

[Sialorrhea. Value of isotopic examination (author's transl)].

Three types of sialorrhea can be distinguished: -- deglutition disorders, especially in patients with Parkinson's disease and those with anxiety, -- ptyalomania, -- primary hypersecretion at rest. Functional scintigraphic studies enable a physiological approach to be made, and this tends to group together, under the name of primary hypersecretion at rest, various clinical manifestations occurring in two main groups: -- elderly women complaining of a bitter taste in the mouth, -- plethoric men with large salivary glands. The scintigraphic recording apperances of secretion at rest, which occurs early and without obvious food stimuli, are also noted in other clinical types. It remains to be demonstrated whether they have a common physiopathological basis arising from disorders of the normal sensitivity of the buccal cavity.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

Familial occurrence of the g syndrome.

We report the familial occurrence of the G syndrome of multiple congenital anomalies affecting a mother and her three sons. All showed the characteristic syndromal facies, a low total ridge count, pronounced hypertelorism, and mild mental retardation, and severe dysphagia in infancy which improved with age but persisted in the boys (it has disappeared in the mother). One of the boys had a left cleft lip and cleft palate, another had a unilateral cleft lip. All boys had hypospadias: penile in two (with descended testes) and perineal in another (with cryptorchidism). Familial occurrence in this family is compatible with autosomal dominant inheritance.

Abnormalities, Multiple↗