Recent developments in esophageal motor disorders

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 416-421

  Beaumont, Hanneke ^a   Boeckxstaens, Guy ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Esophageal motor disorders; Esophagogastric junction; High resolution manometry; Impedance; Transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxation

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS MYOTOMY; ESOPHAGUS SPASM; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HIGH AMPLITUDE PERISTALTIC ESOPHAGEAL CONTRACTION; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARIANT ANGINA PECTORIS;

CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; PERISTALSIS;

EID: 34249949919     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0b013e3281299000     Document Type: Review

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