The human esophagus possesses a remarkable ability to deceive both patients and medical professionals, creating intense burning sensations and debilitating symptoms while appearing completely normal ...

WITHIN a month during the past spring we had the unusual experience at the Beverly Hospital of caring for 2 patients with spontaneous rupture of the esophagus. Although this condition is not a medical ...

A University physician is using a procedure he himself developed to save the life of 11-month-old Italian baby Mannela Magaldi. Born with esophageal atresia — a birth defect where a portion of her ...

‌The esophagus is the tube that connects your throat and stomach. Esophagoscopy is a medical procedure that allows your doctor to look inside your esophagus. This procedure helps your doctor diagnose ...

Classic techniques like videofluoroscopy, stationary manometry, and ambulatory 24 h pH-metry are routinely used in the clinic to study patients with dysphagia, chest pain and reflux-related symptoms.

A common diabetes medication, metformin, slows the growth of precancerous cells in the esophagus while some metabolic conditions accelerate it, suggests a new study. Researchers from the Wellcome ...

Woman eating healthy food, selective focus, canon 1Ds mark III Researchers sought to identify clinical and endoscopic factors that would affect patients’ ability to achieve a normal diet after ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The esophagus, like other luminal organs of the digestive system, provides a potential environment for bacterial colonization, but little is ...