"Dysphagia" the Most Common But Most Undervalued Complication

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, South Korea.
² Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

Editorial

Min Ho Ju et al. JACC Asia. 2022.

. 2022 Feb 1;2(1):114-115.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacasi.2021.11.004. eCollection 2022 Feb.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, South Korea.
² Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

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Keywords: cardiac surgery; complication; dysphagia; frailty.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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