Woman eating healthy food, selective focus, canon 1Ds mark III Researchers sought to identify clinical and endoscopic factors that would affect patients’ ability to achieve a normal diet after ...

The Collis gastroplasty is an esophageal lengthening procedure that addresses a shortened esophagus. First, an anvil is passed alongside an esophageal dilator through the fundus (a). This guides an ...

This patient's symptoms may be due to improper evaluation before surgery (ie, wrong diagnosis) or to a failure of that surgery (ie, poor treatment). Therefore, this case raises 3 important questions: ...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) causes inflammation and swelling in your esophagus. It shouldn't change the length of your life, but it could affect your quality of life. Over time, EoE can leave ...

Most surgeons calibrate the fundoplication over an esophageal dilator to prevent a tight a closure with subsequent postoperative dysphagia; however, some debate the advantage of wrap calibration in ...