Esophageal manometry is an outpatient test used to identify problems with movement and pressure in the esophagus that may lead to problems like heartburn. The esophagus is the "food pipe" leading ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD An esophageal spasm occurs when the esophageal muscles contract abnormally. (These ...

Another potential cause of esophageal spasm is spastic achalasia, a rare motility disorder (trouble moving food through the body). With spastic achalasia, your esophageal muscles don't contract ...

Methods: Two hundred thirty-six patients (159 females, age 47 ± 14 years) with typical and atypical GERD symptom(s) for > 3 months underwent standard water perfused esophageal manometry (EM ...

Esophagogastric junction outflow obstruction was diagnosed in 16 (34.8%) patients, and ineffective esophageal motility was diagnosed in 8 (17.4%) patients. None of the subjects reported symptoms ...

Esophageal motility testing / editors, Donald O. Castell, Joel E. Richter, Christine Boag Dalton.

PPI-responsive esophageal disease represents a subtype of eosinophilic esophagitis rather than GERD, according to comparative ...

including esophageal manometry and esophageal motility studies. Because you're taking a risk with any operation, you should consider surgery for acid reflux or GERD (gastroesophageal reflux ...

Have a small amount. Keep your drink to about an ounce or so of liqueur. VenHuizen says more than that is not only ...

Lean proteins also help normalize gut motility and the movement of food through the digestive tract and are less ... johnsonii which tempers stomach acid production and Bifidobacterium bifidum which ...