Title: Functional Esophageal Disorders: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
Headings: Functional Esophageal Disorders: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
Functional Esophageal Disorders: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
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Functional Esophageal Disorders: A Review of Diagnosis and Management: Functional Dysphagia
Functional Dysphagia
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Content: Functional Esophageal Disorders: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
Functional Esophageal Disorders: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
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Functional Esophageal Disorders: A Review of Diagnosis and Management: Functional Dysphagia
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Functional Dysphagia
Dysphagia is an alarm symptom when it is accompanied by reflux symptoms and prompts an endoscopic evaluation. Patients describe  dysphagia, as a sensation of solid and/or liquid food sticking in the chest on the way down. [ 3] A systematic approach to dysphagia is illustrated in Figure 3. [ 3] Functional dysphagia like the other functional disorders, is a diagnosis of exclusion. Various diagnostic and therapeutic  modalities, when indicated, such as upper endoscopy, barium swallow, a PPI trial, esophageal manometry and video swallow study,  are used to arrive at the diagnosis of functional dysphagia. Figure 3.