Bendix Labeit, Sriramya Lapa, Paul Muhle, Sonja Suntrup-Krueger, Inga Claus, Florin Gandor, Sigrid Ahring, Stephan Oelenberg, Rainer Dziewas, Tobias Warnecke
Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) is one of two diagnostic gold standards for pharyngeal dysphagia in Parkinson's disease (PD), however, validated global outcome measures at the patient level are widely lacking. The Dynamic Imaging Grade of Swallowing Toxicity for Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (DIGEST-FEES) represents such an outcome measure but has been validated primarily for head and neck cancer collectives. The objective of this study was, therefore, to investigate the validity of the DIGEST-FEES in patients with PD...
December 22, 2023: Dysphagia