Early flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing after mechanical thrombectomy in stroke patients.
João PinhoTareq MeyerBettina MallBettina MaringAnnalena DöppJohanna BeckerAnneke WehnerSara ThissenBeate Schumann-WernerOmid NikoubashmanMartin WiesmannJörg Bernhard SchulzCornelius J WernerArno ReichPublished in: Annals of clinical and translational neurology (2024)
Early FEES-defined dysphagia occurs in four in every five patients undergoing MT. SSA has a suboptimal dysphagia screening performance. Presence of dysphagia and increasing dysphagia severity predict worse functional outcome and worse health-related quality-of-life.