Changes in esophageal and lower esophageal sphincter motility with healthy aging

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 243-248

  Besanko, Laura K ^a   Burgstad, Carly M ^a   Cock, Charles ^a,b   Heddle, Richard ^a   Fraser, Alison ^a   Fraser, Robert J L ^b  

^a REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Esophageal motility; Lower esophageal sphincter; Manometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; BODY POSTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MANOMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERISTALSIS; PRESSURE; RISK FACTOR; SWALLOWING; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; PERISTALSIS; POSTURE; PRESSURE; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906846004     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1543/jgld.2014.1121     Document Type: Article

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