Title: Dyskinesia of the esophagus | Competently about health on iLive
Headings: Dyskinesia of the esophagus
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Dyskinesia of the esophagus
Classification of esophagus dyskinesia
Hypermotor disorders of the peristalsis of the thoracic esophagus
Segmental esophagospasm (the "esophagus of the nutcracker")
Diffuse esophagospasm
Nonspecific motor disorders of the esophagus
Hypomotor disorders of the peristalsis of the thoracic esophagus
Cardiospasm
Achalasia cardia
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Content: About 20% of patients with hypomotor dyskinesia of the esophagus do not complain. The remaining patients may have the following manifestations of the disease: dysphagia; regurgitation; feeling of heaviness in the epigastrium after eating; Aspiration of the contents of the esophagus (stomach) into the respiratory tract and development of chronic bronchitis, pneumonia; esophagitis ; decrease in pressure in the esophagus, in the region of the lower esophageal sphincter (with esophagotho-kymographic examination). Cardiospasm
Cardiospasm is the spastic reduction of the lower esophageal sphincter. In the literature there is still no consensus on the terminology of this disease.