Dysphagia and food bolus obstruction are the classic clinical presentations in this age group and reflect an eosinophil-induced esophageal dysmotility disorder. In the present case, exposure to ...

The swallowing evaluation included information from the oral (preparatory and transport), pharyngeal, and esophageal phases. Key points assessed included lip closure, bolus retention, bolus propulsion ...

Digestion begins in your mouth. Your teeth grind the food you eat and mix it with saliva to form a kind of ball, known as a bolus. Your esophagus is a flattened muscular tube that connects your mouth ...

The bolus doesn’t really roll down your throat but is helped by muscular contractions in the esophagus. You do not need gravity to swallow, or else the astronauts in space would be constantly hungry!

Changes in temporal–spatial patterns in impedance are identified at various levels within the oesophagus allowing differentiation between antegrade (ie, swallow) and retrograde (ie, reflux) bolus ...

Bart Frazzitta was told he had a 5% chance of surviving esophageal cancer. Twenty-five years later, he's still here and ...

A MUM-TO-BE pushed so hard during labour that she ended up rupturing her oesophagus. The 24-year-old, who has not been named, went into labour at 38 weeks in a hospital in London. The mum's ...

The paradigm that Barrett's oesophagus develops as a consequence of symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux disease and predisposes to oesophageal adenocarcinoma has dominated clinical thought for ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Pill esophagitis, or drug-induced esophagitis, occurs when oral medications cause ...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic (long-term) condition affecting the esophagus, the tube that carries food and liquids from the mouth to the stomach. EoE causes symptoms like difficulty ...

For patients with resectable esophageal adenocarcinoma, perioperative chemotherapy with FLOT leads to improved survival compared with preoperative chemoradiotherapy.