February 15, 2012 — High-resolution manometry has a high specificity (95.12%) as well as a high predictive value (91.6%) for type 1 sliding hiatal hernia in patients with gastroesophageal reflux ...

Board-certified gastroenterologists Himanshu Desai, MD, and Basel Termanini, MD, will use the new equipment.

An 80-year-old woman with dysphagia for solids after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication presented for evaluation. The patient had experienced symptoms of heartburn, nocturnal cough, and regurgitation ...

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.

In this disease esophagus muscles do not squeeze and the sphincter muscle does not open, so food cannot pass through valve top on stomach. Achalasia is a disease where the function of the esophagus ...