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A Mastery Approach to Complex Esophageal DiseasesApproach to Patients with Esophageal Dysphagia

A Mastery Approach to Complex Esophageal Diseases: Approach to Patients with Esophageal Dysphagia [Dysphagia refers to the subjective sense that swallowing is impeded or hindered. Dysphagia is an alarm symptom, which must be investigated to rule out a potentially treatable disorder or malignancy. While commonly due to gastroesophageal reflux disease, symptomatic assessment is unreliable and barium swallow, flexible endoscopy and esophageal motility study are often required to secure a diagnosis and initiate therapy. Dysphagia is caused by both structural- and motility-based etiologies. Motility disorders responsible for dysphagia may be hypocontractile or hypercontractile. This chapter discusses the evaluation of dysphagia and disorders causative of dysphagia.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Mastery Approach to Complex Esophageal DiseasesApproach to Patients with Esophageal Dysphagia

Editors: Oleynikov, Dmitry; Fisichella, P. Marco
Bowers, Steven P.
A Mastery Approach to Complex Esophageal Diseases — Apr 21, 2018
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
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978-3-319-75794-0
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17 –33
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-75795-7_2
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Abstract

[Dysphagia refers to the subjective sense that swallowing is impeded or hindered. Dysphagia is an alarm symptom, which must be investigated to rule out a potentially treatable disorder or malignancy. While commonly due to gastroesophageal reflux disease, symptomatic assessment is unreliable and barium swallow, flexible endoscopy and esophageal motility study are often required to secure a diagnosis and initiate therapy. Dysphagia is caused by both structural- and motility-based etiologies. Motility disorders responsible for dysphagia may be hypocontractile or hypercontractile. This chapter discusses the evaluation of dysphagia and disorders causative of dysphagia.]

Published: Apr 21, 2018

Keywords: Dysphagia; High-resolution manometry; Endoscopy; Reflux; Fundoplication; Achalasia; Esophageal spasm; Eosinophilic esophagitis

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