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Diagnosis and Management of Esophageal Achalasia by Stavros N Stavropoulos; David Friedel; Rani Modayil; Henry P Parkman is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Diagnosis and Management of Esophageal Achalasia about?

Achalasia is a rare esophageal motility disorder that is usually idiopathic in origin. It is characterized by dysphagia, and patients often have chest pain, regurgitation, weight loss, and an abnormal barium radiograph showing esophageal dilation with narrowing at the gastroesophageal junction. Abnormal or absent esophageal peristalsis and impaired relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) are typically seen on esophageal manometry. The advent of high resolution manometry (HRM) has allowed more precise diagnosis of achalasia, subtype designation, and differentiation from other esophageal motor disorders with an initial seminal publication in 2008 followed by further refinements of what has been termed the Chicago classification. Potential treatments include drugs, endoscopic botulinum toxin injection, balloon dilation, traditional surgery (usually laparoscopic Heller myotomy; LHM), and a novel, less invasive, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) approach to Heller myotomy termed peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). The first human POEM was performed in 2008, with the first publication appearing in 2010 and evidence now rapidly accumulating showing POEM to

Who reads Diagnosis and Management of Esophageal Achalasia?

Author

Stavros N Stavropoulos; David Friedel; Rani Modayil; Henry P Parkman

Publisher

BMJ Publishing Group; BMJ; London: BMJ Pub. Group, [2000?]- (ISSN 0959-8138)

Published

2016

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)