71 results for “chronic dysphagia”
68y · Male·unascertained
A 68-year-old man with multiple chronic medical conditions including peripheral neuropathy, chronic pain, atrial fibrillation, dysphagia, and dep…
65y · Female·choking on a tangerine
…ey Young, a 65-year-old woman with long-standing schizoaffective disorder and multiple complications from chronic antipsychotic use including dysphagia and tardive dyskinesia, died from choking on a tangerine while an i…
88y · Male·aspiration pneumonia complicating vascular dementia and metastatic prostate canc…
An 88-year-old man with vascular dementia, metastatic prostate cancer, and chronic kidney disease died of aspiration pneumonia 15 days after admission to hospital under a Mental Health Act…
56y · Female·Complications of Angelman's syndrome - aspiration pneumonia
…Lavery, a 56-year-old woman with Angelman's syndrome, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, intellectual disability, dysphagia, and severe kyphoscoliosis, died of aspiration pneumonia following a one-month hospital admission. She e…
60y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia complicating Down syndrome
Philip Riley, a 60-year-old man with Down syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, bronchiectasis, and dysphagia, died from aspiration pneumonia at Royal Melbourne Hospital. He had a documented history of recurrent ch…
82y · Male·Pneumonia in an elderly man with advanced lung cancer (squamous cell carcinoma)
…irdner Hospital. He had been an involuntary psychiatric patient at Graylands Hospital for nine years with chronic schizophrenia and frontal lobe syndrome from a 1957 self-inflicted gunshot wound. In November 2013, he wa…
51y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia in a woman with cerebral palsy and epilepsy
…as discharged in December. She was readmitted on 24 December with aspiration pneumonia and oropharyngeal dysphagia diagnosed on 26 December. Despite intravenous antibiotics, she had minimal oral intake due to low consci…
61y · Male·Natural causes unascertained
…line with multiple comorbidities including recurrent urinary tract infections, aspiration pneumonia, and dysphagia. He was discharged from hospital on 14 April 2025 following aspiration pneumonia treatment and died unex…
54y · Female·Multiple organ failure, due to pneumonia in a patient with Guillain-Barré syndro…
Julie Ann Hermans, a 54-year-old Aboriginal woman with Guillain-Barré syndrome, quadriplegia, diabetes, and recurrent infections, died from multiple organ failure due to hospital-acquired pneumonia during an ICU admissio…
95y · Male·bronchopneumonia in a man who has sustained extensive head injury
A 95-year-old man with multiple comorbidities including ischaemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, chronic airways disease, aspiration pneumonia history, and dementia was struck unprovoked by a cognitively impair…
69y · Male·bronchopneumonia and hypoxic brain injury following aspiration of food (choking)
…al and supervision was reasonable, as choking was not identified as a risk despite a previous episode of dysphagia documented four months earlier that had apparently resolved. The key clinical lesson is that documented …
63y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in the setting of functional decline in a man with an intel…
A 63-year-old man with intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, dysphagia, and COPD died from aspiration pneumonia following functional decline. He had a three-month hospital adm…
56y · Male·aspiration pneumonitis secondary to airways obstruction from squamous cell carci…
…y to oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma with metastases while in custody. He presented with progressive dysphagia from September 2019, initially managed as benign (dental abscess, rib fracture). Critical delay occurred…
57y · Male·Pneumonia in a man with epilepsy secondary to childhood meningitis
…ion. The clinical lesson centres on the challenges of managing patients with neurological impairment and dysphagia in both hospital and community settings. Enhanced communication between hospital and community care prov…
66y · Male·metastatic oesophageal cancer
…metastatic oesophageal cancer at a hospital providing palliative care. He presented with weight loss and dysphagia in late 2016, was investigated at Royal Adelaide Hospital where CT and endoscopy confirmed advanced oeso…
50y · Female·Cardiac hypertrophy in the setting of epilepsy
…ne Turner, a 50-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, schizophrenia, epilepsy and dysphagia, died from cardiac hypertrophy in the setting of epilepsy. She experienced falls and declining mobility …
79y · Male·cardiovascular degeneration
…9, died of cardiovascular degeneration at Resthaven aged care facility on 16 August 2012. He had multiple chronic conditions including Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease with multiple prior strokes, …
34y · Female·aspiration pneumonia in the setting of pseudo-obstruction of the large bowel
34-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, developmental delay, epilepsy, chronic bowel pseudo-obstruction, and swallowing difficulties died from aspiration pneumonia. She was admitted to…
18y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in a setting of acquired brain injury from non-accidental h…
…rtance of regular family communication in complex disability cases and the challenges of managing severe dysphagia and malnutrition in young adults with profound neurological disability.
54y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia secondary to Alzheimer's dementia complicating Down's Syndr…
Sandra Black, aged 54, died from aspiration pneumonia secondary to Alzheimer's dementia complicating Down Syndrome. She lived in specialist disability accommodation and had a long history of recurrent aspiration pneumoni…
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