Short-term Prognosis of Dysphagia in Acute Ischemic Brain Stroke

J Korean Neurol Assoc > Volume 11(3); 1993 > Article

Journal of the Korean Neurological Association 1993;11(3): 318-322.

허혈성 뇌졸중에 동반된 연하장애의 급성기 예후

김장성, 홍태용

인제대학교 신경과.

Short-term Prognosis of Dysphagia in Acute Ischemic Brain Stroke

Jang-Sung Kim, M.D., Tae-Yong Hong, M.D.

Department of Neurology, College of Medicine Inje University

Abstract

We evaluated and investigated the short-term (one-week) prognosis of dysphagia and its clinical predictors in 46 ischemic brain stroke(IBS) pteients with dysphagia. Patients were divided into improving or non-improving group. Between the two groups. We compared and analyzed such clinical characteristics in IBS patients with dysphagia as age, sex, site and location of IBS, cranial nervous system deficits other than dysphagia. Dysphagia severity and Canadian Neurological Scale score. The results are as follow: 1. At one week after admission, 27 patients(58.7%) showed improving course and 23 patierits (50%) returned tO nomral. 2. All the clinical characteristics e-aluated did not reveal any significance in predicting the prognosis of dysphagia in IBS patients.