We present a patient with severe postprandial nausea and vomiting resulting in 120 lb weight loss. She was treated for presumed hyperemesis gravidarum but diagnosed with achalasia type 1 upon further ...

Achalasia happens when the processes that move food to your stomach don’t work properly. For food and liquids to pass from your mouth to your stomach, two things need to happen after you ...

(a) Diagnosed with achalasia; (b) Underwent peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) surgery for achalasia; (c) Severe reflux symptoms 23 months later; (d) Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma located 25 ...

In medicine, there are four levels of care: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. The levels of care refer to the complexity of the medical cases that healthcare providers treat and the skills ...

The Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology advances the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal and liver disease through patient care, education and research. The ...

Multiple students were injured after a car crashed into people outside a primary school in central China on Tuesday morning, state news agency Xinhua reported. Authorities have not said how many ...

Because of these drawbacks, left thoracoscopic myotomy is now largely reserved for patients with achalasia who have undergone multiple abdominal operations (which may rule out a laparoscopic ...

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1 Prior to the advent of high-resolution manometry (HRM), conventional oesophageal manometry (line tracing/perfusion) was used, and before that, endoscopy and barium studies were the primary ...

Identifying the seven continents, five oceans, the Equator, the Northern and Southern Hemisphere and the North and South Pole. and The Arctic Ocean. I orbit around the sun. Not that fast! It ...