Title: Esophageal motility disorder - Wikipedia
Headings: Esophageal motility disorder
Esophageal motility disorder
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Dysphagia could be for solid only or for solid and liquid. Solid dysphagia is due to obstruction such as esophageal cancer, esophageal web, or stricture. Solid plus liquid dysphagia is due to esophageal motility disorder (or dysmotility) either in the upper esophagus ( myasthenia gravis, stroke, or dermatomyositis) or lower esophagus ( systemic sclerosis, CREST syndrome, or achalasia ). If there is a food allergy causing an EMD, then physicians recommend an elimination diet. If this fails, then physicians will prescribe special types of Medication to help resolve this problem. See also
Esophageal disease
Esophageal motility study
Esophageal spasm
GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease)
Nutcracker esophagus
Systemic sclerosis
Esophageal food bolus obstruction
Dysphagia
Functional Lumen Imaging Probe
References
^ Winterbauer RH (1964). " Multiple telangiectasia, Raynaud's phenomenon, sclerodactyly, and subcutaneous calcinosis: a syndrome mimicking hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia". Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 114: 31–83.