Long esophageal myotomy with a fundic patch procedure for treating diffuse esophageal spasm: Report of a case

Surgery Today ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuhiro Sato ◽  
Masatoshi Watanabe ◽  
Sinya Mastuno ◽  
Naoto Nishinari ◽  
Akira Sasaki ◽  
...  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 1605-1610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayed Saeid Khatami ◽  
Farah Khandwala ◽  
Steven S. Shay ◽  
Michael F. Vaezi

1974 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Ferguson

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-262
Author(s):  
Mario Costantini ◽  
Renato Salvador ◽  
Andrea Costantini

Spastic esophageal motility disorders are represented, as per the Chicago classification 4.0, by diffuse esophageal spasm and hypercontractile esophagus. They are very rare and therefore poorly understood. The diagnosis is usually made by manometry in presence of dysphagia or chest pain, but often it is often an unexpected finding. In this paper, the authors review the current knowledge and possible treatments of these disorders, when needed. They underline that invasive treatments, as surgical myotomy or POEM, are rarely necessary and that the indications for them are based on low quality studies. Therefore, they should be used with extreme caution in treating spastic motility disorders other than achalasia.


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