Brittleness of diabetes due to achalasia cardia managed successfully by multiple innovative strategies

Achalasia cardia is an infrequent disorder of esophageal dysmotility that has failure of the lower end of the esophagus to relax with swallowing as hallmark abnormality. Diabetes mellitus, on the other hand, can afflict the motor activity of gastrointestinal tract by causing autonomic neuropathy. Co...

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Autores principales: Upreti, Vimal, Vashist, Rohit, Dhull, Pawan, Mujeeb, V. R., Prakash, M. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24251207
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.119639
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author Upreti, Vimal
Vashist, Rohit
Dhull, Pawan
Mujeeb, V. R.
Prakash, M. S.
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description Achalasia cardia is an infrequent disorder of esophageal dysmotility that has failure of the lower end of the esophagus to relax with swallowing as hallmark abnormality. Diabetes mellitus, on the other hand, can afflict the motor activity of gastrointestinal tract by causing autonomic neuropathy. Combination of these diseases can be very distressing to a patient. We present a 45-year-old lady co-affected with both these disorders who presented with severe hypoglycemia and was managed successfully using the multiple strategies to treat achalasia and diabetes.
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spelling pubmed-38303532013-11-18 Brittleness of diabetes due to achalasia cardia managed successfully by multiple innovative strategies Upreti, Vimal Vashist, Rohit Dhull, Pawan Mujeeb, V. R. Prakash, M. S. Indian J Endocrinol Metab Brief Communication Achalasia cardia is an infrequent disorder of esophageal dysmotility that has failure of the lower end of the esophagus to relax with swallowing as hallmark abnormality. Diabetes mellitus, on the other hand, can afflict the motor activity of gastrointestinal tract by causing autonomic neuropathy. Combination of these diseases can be very distressing to a patient. We present a 45-year-old lady co-affected with both these disorders who presented with severe hypoglycemia and was managed successfully using the multiple strategies to treat achalasia and diabetes. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3830353/ /pubmed/24251207 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.119639 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24251207
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