Acta Pediátrica Española

ISSN 2014-2986

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  • Num_publicacion 75(5-6)
  • Resumen_ingles
    Objective: To evaluate the effects of the oropharyngeal electro-stimulation about the sialorrhea in patients with birth malformations of the nervous central system. 
    Material and method: Almost experimental study, prospective, analytic and longitudinal, it is included 10 patients both sexs, between 3 and 7 years old with birth malformations of the nervous central system and sialorrhea; it is excluded to the patients with dermatitis, uncontrolled seizures and those that previously they had application of botulinum toxin.  It applied oropharyngeal electro-stimulation, 20 sessions by patient, in an average period of 7.5 months. The same number of patients that who began, they completed the study. It was evaluated with three types of scale, the motor oral, of the frequency and the severity of the sialorrhea, the results were analyzed with the statistical package IBM SPSS version 15, it applied the Friedman test. 
    Results: In the oral motor scale, it was found an improvement in the evaluated parameters with a significance (p= 0.001), in the severity of the sialorrhea it presented a significant decrease (p= 0.002), and in the frequency of the sialorrhea the change observed it was also significant (p= 0.004).
    Conclusions: Electro-stimulation is an alternative, useful tool to the decrease of the frequency and severity of the sialorrhea in the patients with birth malformations of nervous central system.
     
  • Palabras_clave_ingles Electro stimulation Sialorrhea Brain malformations
  • Todos_autores J.J. Sánchez-Vázquez, D.M. Castro-Coyotl
  • autores listados J.J. Sánchez-Vázquez, D.M. Castro-Coyotl
  • Correspondecia
    J.J. Sánchez Vázquez. Avda. Perseo 5320. Reserva Territorial Atlixcayotl. San Andrés Cholula. Puebla (México).
    Correo electrónico: terafijoju@gmail.com
  • Titulo_ingles Effect of oropharyngeal electro-stimulation, about sialorrhea in patients with birth malformations of nervous central system
  • Centros_trabajo Centro de Rehabilitación e Inclusión Infantil Teletón. Puebla (México)
  • Publicado en Acta Pediatr Esp. 2017; 75(5-6): 67-71
  • copyright ©2017 Ediciones Mayo, S.A.
  • Fecha recepcion 05/05/16
  • Fecha aceptacion 26/08/16
  • Tipo de Artículo Clínico (Microdatos) Observational Study
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