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Cracking the Case of Achalasia-induced Syncopal Episode
Achalasia is an uncommon disease that occurs due to inability of lower esophageal sphincter from relaxing, leading to dysphagia to liquids and solids. Clues to this diagnosis include: failed treatment with proton pump inhibitors, and changes on imaging studies including chest X-ray and barium esopha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32328389 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7379 |
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author | Bhamrah, Paul S Faraji, Mehdi Garikipati, Subhash Ulicny, Kenneth Stutes, Ashley B |
author_facet | Bhamrah, Paul S Faraji, Mehdi Garikipati, Subhash Ulicny, Kenneth Stutes, Ashley B |
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description | Achalasia is an uncommon disease that occurs due to inability of lower esophageal sphincter from relaxing, leading to dysphagia to liquids and solids. Clues to this diagnosis include: failed treatment with proton pump inhibitors, and changes on imaging studies including chest X-ray and barium esophagogram. Ultimately it is a diagnosis made on esophageal manometry. Swallow-induced syncope has been known in patients with achalasia for almost three centuries. Here we present the case of a patient with achalasia and a non-swallowing syncopal episode. To our knowledge and extensive search, there has been no report of a similar case. |
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spelling | pubmed-71763282020-04-23 Cracking the Case of Achalasia-induced Syncopal Episode Bhamrah, Paul S Faraji, Mehdi Garikipati, Subhash Ulicny, Kenneth Stutes, Ashley B Cureus Internal Medicine Achalasia is an uncommon disease that occurs due to inability of lower esophageal sphincter from relaxing, leading to dysphagia to liquids and solids. Clues to this diagnosis include: failed treatment with proton pump inhibitors, and changes on imaging studies including chest X-ray and barium esophagogram. Ultimately it is a diagnosis made on esophageal manometry. Swallow-induced syncope has been known in patients with achalasia for almost three centuries. Here we present the case of a patient with achalasia and a non-swallowing syncopal episode. To our knowledge and extensive search, there has been no report of a similar case. Cureus 2020-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7176328/ /pubmed/32328389 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7379 Text en Copyright © 2020, Bhamrah et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Bhamrah, Paul S Faraji, Mehdi Garikipati, Subhash Ulicny, Kenneth Stutes, Ashley B Cracking the Case of Achalasia-induced Syncopal Episode |
title | Cracking the Case of Achalasia-induced Syncopal Episode |
title_full | Cracking the Case of Achalasia-induced Syncopal Episode |
title_fullStr | Cracking the Case of Achalasia-induced Syncopal Episode |
title_full_unstemmed | Cracking the Case of Achalasia-induced Syncopal Episode |
title_short | Cracking the Case of Achalasia-induced Syncopal Episode |
title_sort | cracking the case of achalasia-induced syncopal episode |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32328389 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7379 |
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