Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Achalasia was associated with an increased risk for esophageal cancer among a cohort of ...

Q: When should I consult a doctor? A: If you find it difficult to swallow or experience painful swallowing, in spite of treatment for achalasia, you should immediately consult a gastroenterologist. A: ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A very simple act that we do day in and day out to stay alive was literally choking one Northeast Philadelphia woman. But she says a procedure done at Temple Health changed her ...

Acute airway obstruction from mega-esophagus is an extremely rare presentation of achalasia. We present the case of an 82-year-old woman without previously diagnosed achalasia who presented with ...

The diagnosis of achalasia is made on the basis of aperistalsis of the esophagus. Manometry often reveals an elevated LES pressure (> 50 mm Hg), although this is not necessary to confirm the diagnosis ...

Researchers in Japan have developed an artificial intelligence model that simplifies the diagnosis of esophageal achalasia, a rare disorder affecting the movement of the esophagus, from routine chest ...

Surgical treatment of achalasia has evolved over the last several years. Transthoracic or transabdominal Heller anterior myotomy provide excellent relief of dysphagia. However, it is associated with ...

COOPERSBURG, PA. (WPVI) -- Most of us look forward to meals. Every year, thousands of people develop an unusual condition that can take the joy out of eating. For 30 years, Jack Svoboda had problems ...

A heatmap overlay highlighting regions of interest by the AI model. The bright red/yellow area is centered over the esophagus, indicating the model is detecting an abnormality in that region, likely ...