February 15, 2012 — High-resolution manometry has a high specificity (95.12%) as well as a high predictive value (91.6%) for type 1 sliding hiatal hernia in patients with gastroesophageal reflux ...

Board-certified gastroenterologists Himanshu Desai, MD, and Basel Termanini, MD, will use the new equipment.

Peroral endoscopic myotomy is an accepted treatment of achalasia. Some of the treatment failures can be attributable to an insufficient length of the myotomy on the gastric side, because of a more ...

In this disease esophagus muscles do not squeeze and the sphincter muscle does not open, so food cannot pass through valve top on stomach. Achalasia is a disease where the function of the esophagus ...