Interventions for dysphagia in long-term, progressive muscle disease

Normal swallowing function is divided into oral, pharyngeal, and oesophageal phases. The anatomy and physiology of the oral cavity facilitates an oral preparatory phase of swallowing, in which food and liquid are pushed towards the pharynx by the tongue. During pharyngeal and oesophageal phases of s...

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Published in:	Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2016-02, Vol.2 (2), p.CD004303
Main Authors:	Jones, Katherine, Pitceathly, Robert D S, Rose, Michael R, McGowan, Susan, Hill, Marguerite, Badrising, Umesh A, Hughes, Tom
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Adult Child Child health Chronic Disease Deglutition Deglutition Disorders - drug therapy Deglutition Disorders - etiology Gastroenterology & hepatology Generic Neuromuscular Symptoms Humans Immunoglobulins, Intravenous - therapeutic use Immunologic Factors - therapeutic use Muscular Diseases - complications Muscular Diseases - drug therapy Myositis, Inclusion Body - complications Myositis, Inclusion Body - drug therapy Neurology Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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Summary:	Normal swallowing function is divided into oral, pharyngeal, and oesophageal phases. The anatomy and physiology of the oral cavity facilitates an oral preparatory phase of swallowing, in which food and liquid are pushed towards the pharynx by the tongue. During pharyngeal and oesophageal phases of swallowing, food and liquid are moved from the pharynx to the stomach via the oesophagus. Our understanding of swallowing function in health and disease has informed our understanding of how muscle weakness can disrupt swallowing in people with muscle disease. As a common complication of long-term, progressive muscle disease, there is a clear need to evaluate the current interventions for managing swallowing difficulties (dysphagia). This is an update of a review first published in 2004. To assess the effects of interventions for dysphagia in people with long-term, progressive muscle disease. On 11 January 2016, we searched the Cochrane Neuromuscular Specialised Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, EMBASE, AMED, LILACS, and CINAHL. We checked references in the identified trials for additional randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials. We also searched ClinicalTrials.gov and the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform on 12 January 2016 for ongoing or completed but unpublished clinical trials. We included randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials that assessed the effect of interventions for managing dysphagia in adults and children with long-term, progressive muscle disease, compared to other interventions, placebo, no intervention, or standard care. Quasi-randomised controlled trials are trials that used a quasi-random method of allocation, such as date of birth, alternation, or case record number. Review authors previously excluded trials involving people with muscle conditions of a known inflammatory or toxic aetiology. In this review update, we decided to include trials of people with sporadic inclusion body myositis (IBM) on the basis that it presents as a long-term, progressive muscle disease with uncertain degenerative and inflammatory aetiology and is typically refractory to treatment. We applied standard Cochrane methodological procedures. There were no randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that reported results in terms of the review's primary outcome of interest, weight gain or maintenance. However, we identified one RCT that assessed the effect of intravenous i
ISSN:	1469-493X