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Table 3 - Aspiration syndromes and their potential outcomes

From the following article

Pulmonary complications of oral-pharyngeal motility disorders

Jeffrey L. Curtis

GI Motility online (2006)

doi:10.1038/gimo33

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Massive aspiration 
    SolidsAcute airway obstruction ("café coronary")
    LiquidsDrowning/near drowning
Toxic aspirationsAcute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Aspiration of oral secretionspneumonia, lung abscess, empyema
Chronic aspirationgranulomatous response, (?) pulmonary fibrosis
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