Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1737-1746.e2, May 2010

Adjunctive Functional Pharyngeal Electrical Stimulation Reverses Swallowing Disability After Brain Lesions

  • Vanoo Jayasekeran

      Affiliations

    • School of Translational Medicine–Gastrointestinal Sciences, Salford Royal Hospital, University of Manchester (Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre), Salford, England
    • ,
  • Salil Singh

      Affiliations

    • School of Translational Medicine–Gastrointestinal Sciences, Salford Royal Hospital, University of Manchester (Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre), Salford, England
    • ,
  • Pippa Tyrrell

      Affiliations

    • Stroke Medicine, Salford Royal Hospital, University of Manchester (Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre), Salford, England
    • ,
  • Emilia Michou

      Affiliations

    • School of Translational Medicine–Gastrointestinal Sciences, Salford Royal Hospital, University of Manchester (Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre), Salford, England
    • ,
  • Samantha Jefferson

      Affiliations

    • School of Translational Medicine–Gastrointestinal Sciences, Salford Royal Hospital, University of Manchester (Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre), Salford, England
    • ,
  • Satish Mistry

      Affiliations

    • School of Translational Medicine–Gastrointestinal Sciences, Salford Royal Hospital, University of Manchester (Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre), Salford, England
    • ,
  • Ed Gamble

      Affiliations

    • Stroke Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, England
    • ,
  • John Rothwell

      Affiliations

    • Sobell Department of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, England
    • ,
  • David Thompson

      Affiliations

    • School of Translational Medicine–Gastrointestinal Sciences, Salford Royal Hospital, University of Manchester (Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre), Salford, England
    • ,
  • Shaheen Hamdy

      Affiliations

    • School of Translational Medicine–Gastrointestinal Sciences, Salford Royal Hospital, University of Manchester (Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre), Salford, England
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Shaheen Hamdy, MD, Department of GI Sciences, University of Manchester, Clinical Sciences Building, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, M6 8HD England. fax: (44) 161-206-4364

Received 14 October 2009; accepted 27 January 2010. published online 04 February 2010.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding Supported by the Health Foundation, Medical Research Council, Research into Aging, and the National Institute of Health Research/Research for Patient Benefit. The study was sponsored by the University of Manchester, UK, which did not have a role in the study design or in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data.

PII: S0016-5085(10)00161-7

doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2010.01.052

Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1737-1746.e2, May 2010

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