A rare cause of dysphagia and weight loss in a nonagenarian with hypertension: Dysphagia aortica
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Tarih
2015
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Yayıncı
Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
To the Editor: Dysphagia is a subjective awareness of difficulty in swallowing caused by impaired progression of food from the oropharynx to the stomach. An unusual mechanical cause of dysphagia occurs from extrinsic compression of the esophagus by the aorta. This was first described in 1932 as dysphagia aortica, which develops primarily in women and is associated with short stature, old age, hypertension, and kyphosis.1 A 98?year?old woman with dysphagia aortica caused by a dilated archus aorta and uncontrolled hypertension is reported.
Açıklama
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[Belirlenecek]
Kaynak
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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N/A
Scopus Q Değeri
Q1
Cilt
63
Sayı
7
Künye
Karavelioğlu, Y., Kalcik, M., Yetim, M., Sarak, T., Bekar, L., & Doğan, T. (2015). A rare cause of dysphagia and weight loss in a nonagenarian with hypertension: Dysphagia aortica. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 63(7), 1488-9 .
