Main description:

Rare Disorders that Cause Dysphagia: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists is a resource manual to help medical speech-language pathologists identify the rare disorders that cause dysphagia and offer practical, therapeutic approaches to treatment. Most medical speech-language pathologists are acquainted with common etiologies of dysphagia, such as strokes, head injury, brain tumors, etc. However, there are less common disorders and syndromes that contribute to dysphagia that are not included in most textbooks and reference guides. Consequently, many clinicians who specialize in swallowing disorders are unaware of the impact that most uncommon diseases can have on swallowing.

Clearly organized, each chapter is divided into six sections: Definition, History, Etiology, Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations of Dysphagia, and Management of Dysphagia. Each chapter begins with a list of key terms that are bolded throughout the text and included in a glossary.

Contents:

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Reviewers

Chapter 1. Plummer-Vinson Syndrome
Chapter 2. Niemann-Pick Disease Type C
Chapter 3. Stuve-Wiedemann Syndrome
Chapter 4. Congenital Esophageal Stenosis
Chapter 5. Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis
Chapter 6. Moebius Syndrome
Chapter 7. Ataxia Telangiectasia
Chapter 8. Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia
Chapter 9. Fahr's Syndrome
Chapter 10. Biotin-Responsive Basal Ganglia Disease
Chapter 11. Pompe Disease
Chapter 12. Nemaline Myopathy
Chapter 13. Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease
Chapter 14. Esophageal Atresia
Chapter 15. Wallenberg's Syndrome
Glossary

Index