Ivana Cilingová, Barbora Bunová, Vlastimil Serdahely
Dysphagia – difficulty in swallowing is a common sign in a lot of neurological diseases – acute stroke (as a part of bulbar
and pseudobulbar syndrome), befalling of corticobulbar ways and cranial nerves (n.IX., X, XI, XII), neurodegenerative
diseases – Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, amyotrofic lateral sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, cerebral
palsy, etc. This article focuses on diagnostic ways and dysphagia treatment of patients with acute stroke at the
Department of Neurology in Skalica. Examination and follow-up logopedic treatment of dysphagia play an important
role in acute stroke managment, at which identification the early dysphagia signs may eliminate complications such as
suffocation, hypohydratation at the point of low liquid peroral admission, which significantly increases relaps of stroke,
malnutrition, silent aspiration ahead of aspiration pneumonia, which prolongs hospitalization, increasing drug costs
and last but not least have harmful consequences for patient.