ALLMedicine™ Esophageal Motility Disorders Center

May 15th, 2022 - Little attention has been given to esophageal disorders in diabetes mellitus. Pathophysiology of esophageal motility disorders (EMD) in patients with diabetes mellitus is multifactorial. The aims of the present study were: (a) to evaluate the prev...

Apr 28th, 2022 - There is limited data on long-term outcomes of per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). In this study, we aim to evaluate the efficacy of POEM in patients who completed a minimum follow-up of 5 years. Data of patients who underwent POEM and completed ≥...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Esophageal motility disorders (EMD) may be considered primary disorders only in the absence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). If GERD is present, treatment should be directed toward correction of the abnormal reflux. The actual prevalence...

Apr 4th, 2022 - Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) is performed for various esophageal motility disorders, including achalasia and other spastic esophageal conditions. It is performed with the standard endoscope and involves dissection of the esophageal submucosa...

Mar 23rd, 2022 - Practice Essentials Drooling (sialorrhea) is the unintentional loss of saliva from the mouth. The term drooling commonly refers to anterior drooling and should be distinguished from posterior drooling, in which saliva spills over the tongue throug...

Jul 1st, 2021 - The recommended diagnostic criteria for achalasia have been recently updated by Chicago Classification version 4.0 (CCv4.0), the widely accepted classification scheme for esophageal motility disorders using metrics from high-resolution manometry (...

Apr 4th, 2022 - Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) is performed for various esophageal motility disorders, including achalasia and other spastic esophageal conditions. It is performed with the standard endoscope and involves dissection of the esophageal submucosa...

Aug 18th, 2021 - Dysphagia, or difficulty with swallowing, is a common symptom affecting nearly 9.4 million individuals or 4% of the US population. High resolution esophageal manometry is currently considered the gold standard test for evaluation and diagnosis of ...

Apr 14th, 2021 - Gastroparesis is defined as an objective delay in gastric emptying in the absence of mechanical obstruction with corresponding cardinal symptoms of postprandial fullness, early satiety, nausea, vomiting, bloating, and abdominal pain. Gastroparesis...

May 5th, 2020 - Achalasia is one of the most studied esophageal motility disorders. The etiology of Achalasia is autoimmune, neurodegenerative, or viral immune. Achalasia is a consequence of the degeneration of ganglion cells in the myenteric plexus of the esopha...

Dec 2nd, 2019 - We have therefore designed a prospective study in order to evaluate the effect of PPI and SSRI therapy for different subtypes of NCCP patients using multichannel intraluminal impedance and pH (MII-pH) monitoring. METHODS Patients with non cardiac ...

Apr 13th, 2021 - The field of esophagology was transformed by the pioneering work of the late Dr Ray Clouse, who developed color topographic plots to more accurately assess esophageal motility. Clouse's spirit of innovation in this area has since been taken up by ...

Mar 5th, 2019 - The Diagnosis: Phytophotodermatitis Initially, there was concern for autoimmune or connective tissue disease because of the edematous plaques localized over sun-exposed regions of the hands with marked sparing of the knuckles. Lupus erythematosus.

Mar 5th, 2019 - The Diagnosis: Phytophotodermatitis Initially, there was concern for autoimmune or connective tissue disease because of the edematous plaques localized over sun-exposed regions of the hands with marked sparing of the knuckles. Lupus erythematosus.

Aug 31st, 2018 - Technical failures or adverse events complicated 4% of peroral endoscopic myotomies (POEMs) in a large single-center retrospective study. Individual predictors of this composite negative outcome included case number, full-thickness myotomy, and pr.

Nov 5th, 2013 - Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD, FACS, FRCSI (Hon), The Henry N.