Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), also known as gastro oesophageal reflux disease, is more than just the occasional ...

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Other symptoms include coughing, chest pain, and difficulty swallowing. If not adequately controlled, GERD can cause esophageal ulcers, esophageal stricture (narrowing of the esophagus), and a ...

A chronic inflammatory and allergic disorder of the esophagus, EoE can lead to fibrostenosis if untreated; the resulting esophageal strictures and narrowing can necessitate esophageal dilation.

Dr C Gelbmann, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany. BACKGROUND/AIMS Intestinal fibrosis and stricture formation is an unresolved problem in Crohn’s ...

are not recommended as first-line treatment for benign esophageal strictures, primarily due to potential adverse event risks, the availability of alternative therapies, and higher costs. While this ...

After a bread-barium swallow (not shown here), he complained of dysphagia, and the bread could not be seen obstructing the residual esophageal lumen. Patients with rings that cause symptoms ...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic esophageal inflammatory disease of undetermined pathophysiology that results in dense mucosal eosinophilia and esophageal dysfunction. In childhood ...

Faced with an ongoing struggle for his son's survival and relief from pain, Frank Luis Vento García, the father of a ...

The location of esophageal strictures/tumors was stratified into three; proximal esophagus (seen at a distance of less than or equal to 23cm from the incisors), mid esophagus (between 24-32cm from the ...