Bethanechol improves smooth muscle function in patients with severe ineffective esophageal motility

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 366-370

  Agrawal, Amit ^a   Hila, Amine ^a   Tutuian, Radu ^a   Mainie, Inder ^a   Castell, Donald O ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bethanechol; Esophageal motility; Impedance; Ineffective esophageal motility

Indexed keywords

BETHANECHOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SUPINE POSITION; SWALLOWING; VISCOSITY;

ADULT; AGED; BETHANECHOL; DEGLUTITION; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PERISTALSIS;

EID: 34147097606     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mcg.0000225542.03880.68     Document Type: Article

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