Swallowing in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.
Sheilla de Medeiros Correia MarinLetícia Lessa MansurFabricio Ferreira de OliveiraLuis Fabiano MarinJosé Roberto WajmanValéria Santoro BahiaPaulo Henrique Ferreira BertolucciPublished in: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (2021)
Patients with bvFTD had inappropriate speed eating, passivity, coughing and choking starting in the mild dementia stage, and these problems worsen in the severe stage. Such difficulties affected caregiver performance during mealtime. The correlations indicated that swallowing difficulties tend to follow cognitive and behavioral decline in patients with bvFTD.