Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE).This test involves passing a small ultrasound transducer down into the esophagus ... the balloon is inflated to stretch the valve open, and then removed. This ...

Learn what causes esophageal strictures, how they're diagnosed, and the latest treatments to ease swallowing and improve quality of life.

As usual, the 49ers received five, which was hardly in question. The next step is to identify which stretch of games will be the most challenging for the 49ers. Every year schedule has a specific ...

Still, it is a schedule that favors them even with a tough stretch that will prove to be a hurdle for them. A large part of games will be fairly easy for them, but there is one specific stretch ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A stretch of Interstate 435 in Johnson County will be closed in both directions this weekend for bridge demolition work. The Kansas Department of Transportation says both ...

Begins the operative procedure identifying ... contents into the esophagus during radiographic maneuver inducing reflux (Bruno: colocar em inglês as palavras) The small gastric pouch produces too ...

We are on the final stretch,” he declared Thursday morning as he officially opened the administrative block of the State-run health facility in Mount Salem, St James. “Today we see some of the ...

“This road, I want everybody to know, is more than just a stretch of asphalt. It represents, as our executive director said this evening, progress and opportunity for all in this area. It is ...

However, most brands still only offer 100 percent cotton denim up to a size 32. Stretch denim — which adds elastane, spandex, or Lycra to cotton — is more forgiving when it comes to fit.

Shockingly, the abdomen can stretch and fill with upwards of 15 ... as the fluid pushes up on the diaphragm. I'll often do a procedure called a paracentesis. This is where I put a large needle ...

It turns out May had unknowingly suffered a serious tear in his esophagus. He later learned ... a piece of the Dodgers pitching staff down the stretch, to realizing just how fragile life is.