All cases of dyspnea or dysphagia should be studied endoscopically if the cause of the condition cannot be definitely found and treated by other means.
Intermittent dysphagia suggests the tilting or shifting of a foreign body in a valve-like fashion; but may be due to occlusion of the by-passages by food arrested by the foreign body.
The relief or circumvention of the dysphagia requires early measures to prevent food and water starvation.
Odynphagia anddysphagia or aphagia may or may not be present.
Aneurysm of the aorta must in all cases of dysphagia be excluded, for the dilated aorta may be the sole cause of the condition, and its presence contraindicates esophagoscopy because of the liability of rupture.
Dysphagia after recent diphtheria should suggest paralysis of the esophagus.
Dysphagia might result from the pressure of an unknown aneurysm, the symptoms being attributed to a foreign body, and aortic aneurysm is a definite contraindication to esophagoscopy unless there be foreign body present also.
Gastrostomy for feeding should be done if dysphagia be severe, and has the advantage of putting the esophagus at rest.
The voice was still weak and husky, but there was no dysphagia or dyspnoea.
During the first week dysphagia and some pain and soreness in the episternal notch, with pain and difficulty of respiration, were noticed.
Great swelling of the fauces and dysphagia persisted for some days after the injury, and there was considerable hæmorrhage.
He spoke distinctly, but there was dysphagia as far as solids were concerned.
If treatment by bougies be attempted in dysphagia arising from such a cause, the practitioner not being aware of the nature of the disease, the fatal issue will be fearfully hastened—a very unpleasant consequence of any practice.
In the last case, it is generally a symptom of approaching dissolution, as is the dysphagia which often attends it.
Dysphagia may arise from an aneurismal tumour of the arch of the aorta, or of the large arterial trunks passing off from it, pressing on the œsophagus, and so narrowing its calibre.
And dysphagiamay also arise from an opposite condition of the fibres—from paralysis, in consequence of cerebral affection, a fatal symptom in any disease.
Consciousness of a liability to spasm increases the dysphagia for the time being, or brings it on suddenly when this liability had been forgotten.
Dysphagia may be a prominent symptom in cancer occupying parts of the stomach remote from the cardia.
The dysphagia here considered is not likely to be confounded with the difficulty in swallowing which is due to weakness or to aphthous inflammation of the throat and gullet, which often attends the last days of gastric cancer.
A pharyngitis attended with severe dysphagia and high fever occasionally precedes the other symptoms or occurs in the early stage of the disease.
Dysphagia is sometimes one of the first symptoms to attract attention, but it may not appear until late in the disease.
Diffused oesophagitis is suspected when the general pain or the painful dysphagia appears to extend along the entire tract of the oesophagus, or at least a large portion of it.
The dysphagiais not always due to tumefaction of the mucous membrane, but usually in part to coexisting inflammation of the muscular coat or infiltration between the sheaths of muscular fibres, paralyzing their efforts at contraction.
The course of acute catarrhal oesophagitis is, as a rule, short, the pain and dysphagia usually subsiding in a few days, with complete resolution and no unfavorable sequelae.
The dysphagia is rarely complete, instances in which no liquids can be swallowed being infrequent.
Dysphagia is one of the most important symptoms of cancer of the cardia.
The amount and character of the dysphagia vary greatly.
One of the greatest triumphs of extract of Coca is assuredly its action in dysphagia and in the vomiting of consumptives, as also in the vomiting of pregnancy.
The same is true of the dysphagia which accompanies them.
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