A WOMAN must stand up while eating and drinking anything or risk choking to death. Elise Baynard was diagnosed with achalasia – a rare swallowing condition that affects the oesophagus. It has made ...
Atypical presentation of achalasia and gastroparesis should also not be overlooked in patients who have refractory reflux syndromes and normal endoscopy findings; however, most of these patients ...
The disorder, which affects the oesophagus, has left Elise Baynard regurgitating food and vomiting up to 60 times daily, making it nearly impossible to lead a normal life. Elise’s battle began in ...
Achalasia is a disorder of motility in the esophagus in which the esophagus has ... relaxing the pressure on the esophagus and allowing food to pass into the stomach with less resistance. The small ...
Increasing evidence has demonstrated that peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is not only clinically feasible and safe, but also has excellent results in symptomatic relief of achalasia. The success ...