Zusammenfassung
HNO-Ärzte werden häufig mit chronischen Schluckstörungen konfrontiert, die nicht kausal behandelt werden können, insbesondere nach Resektion von Kopf-Hals-Tumoren, bei peripheren und zentralen Nervenlähmungen und als funktionelle Störung. Da der Gesamterfolg einer HNO-ärztlichen Behandlung auch von der Fähigkeit einer normalen Nahrungsaufnahme abhängt, sind eingehende Kenntnisse der Diagnostik und Therapie von Schluckstörungen speziell für Erkrankungen im HNO-Bereich notwendig. Dazu vermittelt diese Übersichtsarbeit die wichtigsten Kenntnisse zur Schluckphysiologie, zur Diagnostik (Teil 1) - die HNO-Ärzte und Phoniater oft interdisziplinär und dabei federführend zu organisieren haben - und zur operativen und konservativen Therapie (Teil 2) einschließlich der Verordnung von restituierenden, kompensierenden und adaptierenden Verfahren.
The Management of Dysphagia
Patients with chronic dysphagia are often in need of artificial nutrition; though being well balanced in terms of energy and vitamins, patients are at a high risk for the loss of resistance and body weight. Dysphagia also causes a severe drawback of the overall quality of life. This paper gives an overview of the present management of dysphagia from the point of view of otolaryngologists, head-neck-surgeons, phoniatricians, and medical speech-language-voice-pathologists. The physiology of swallowing and typical symptoms of dysphagia are first explained. Then the current most important diagnostic procedures as orofacial and laryngeal function analysis, video-endoscopy, and quantitative assessments, are discussed (part 1). This also includes considerations on bolus viscosity variation, postures, swallowing maneuvers, and sensory enhancement procedures, while actual options like botulinum toxin, passy-muir speaking valve, electromyographic biofeedback, and electrostimulation are also mentioned (part 2).
Abstract
Patients with chronic dysphagia are often in need of artificial nutrition; though being well balanced in terms of energy and vitamins, patients are at a high risk for the loss of resistance and body weight. Dysphagia also causes a severe drawback of the overall quality of life. This paper gives an overview of the present management of dysphagia from the point of view of otolaryngologists, head-neck-surgeons, phoniatricians, and medical speech-language-voice-pathologists. The physiology of swallowing and typical symptoms of dysphagia are first explained. Then the current most important diagnostic procedures as orofacial and laryngeal function analysis, video-endoscopy, and quantitative assessments, are discussed (part 1). This also includes considerations on bolus viscosity variation, postures, swallowing maneuvers, and sensory enhancement procedures, while actual options like botulinum toxin, passy-muir speaking valve, electromyographic biofeedback, and electrostimulation are also mentioned (part 2).
Summary
Background: In histologic studies, the volumetric status of the intralabyrinthine fluids is judged by the position of the endolymphatic membranes. Bulging of the membranes, commonly known as endolymphatic hydrops, is assumed to be caused by excess of endolymph. The opposite situation, retraction of the membranes is, however, only incidentally described and relatively little attention has been paid to its significance. Almost one hundred years ago Wittmaack described retraction of the endolymphatic membranes, which has since been considered to be preparation artifact - a concept that essentially remains unchallenged. To test the validity of this long held premise, we examined two sets of temporal bones from different centers.
Material and Methods: We studied the following collections: 1. The Wittmaack collection in Hamburg, Germany. The original material of 67 temporal bones (patient ages 0-92 years, average age 35.2 years) on which Wittmaack based his opinions. 2. For comparison and to exclude age related phenomena, 125 temporal bones from 73 children between the ages newborn to ten years (average age 13.4 months, median 1.5 months) from the temporal bone collection of the Department of Otolaryngology Tufts University School of Medicine. All specimens were studied by light microscopy. Retraction was defined as depression of Reissner's membrane toward the stria vascularis and the Organ of Corti in more than one cochlear turn and was graded into mild, moderate and severe. Additionally the saccule, utricle and semicircular ducts were examined for collapse.
Results: The reevaluation of the 67 temporal bones described by Wittmaack, including those of 7 children below the age of 10 years, showed retraction of Reissner's membrane in 81% compared to 33% of the temporal bones from the Tufts collection. In contrast to the high incidence of retraction in the cochlear duct, fewer saccules (12%) and utricles (4%) were collapsed in the Tufts collection. In the Wittmaack collection no significant differences between the underlying diseases were found, however in the Tufts collection the group of children who suffered from extracochlear infections and malignancies had a higher frequency of retraction.
Conclusion: Mild retraction might be to some extent physiologic or even artifactual. Severe retraction, however, is a definitive finding that is a part of a local or regional otopathologic process. Of material, it is quite possible that Wittmaack's original observations of what he called “hypotonic collapse” was of viral origin (viruses were not known during Wittmaack's time), ototoxicity or even of genetic origin.
Schlüsselwörter
Schlucken - Dysphagie - Aspiration - perkutane endoskopische Gastrostomie - fiberoptische Schluckuntersuchung - transorale endoskopische Schluckuntersuchung - Mendelsohn-Manöver - Tracheotomie
Key words
Swallowing - dysphagia - aspiration - percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy - fiberoptic evaluation of swallowing - transoral evaluation of swallowing - Mendelsohn-maneuver - tracheostomy
Key words
Swallowing · dysphagia · aspiration · percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy · fiberoptic evaluation of swallowing · transoral evaluation of swallowing · Mendelsohn-maneuver · tracheostomy
Key words
Histopathology - Children - Viral infection - Reissner's membrane collapse - Labyrinthitis - Ototoxicity - Stria vascularis
