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 ...

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 ...

Some of these changes that can help control GERD and thereby possibly delay or prevent strictures include: Surgical treatment of esophageal stricture is rarely necessary. It is only performed if a ...

Due to his recent PVI ablation, there was a suspicion for the possibility of an atrial‐esophageal fistula with subsequent food embolism. The patient underwent an exploratory thoracotomy, with ...

THROOP — A massive fire destroyed Bolus Truck Parts and Towing in Throop early Wednesday morning. When fire crews responded at 3 a.m., the fire was fully involved. Owner Bob Bolus said the ...

She singlehandedly stymied the investigation into the president-elect’s theft of classified documents, and effectively abetted his obstruction of the Justice Department’s probe into that ...

Fire sparked at Bolus Trucking Parts in Throop just before 3 a.m. and quickly consumed the Sanderson Street building. The Mid Valley School District, less than a mile away, issued a 2-hour delay.

What is a 5-year relative survival rate? Where do these numbers come from? 5-year relative survival rates for esophageal cancer Understanding the numbers Keep in mind that survival rates are estimates ...

A ureteral obstruction is a blockage in your ureters. Your ureters are the tubes that carry urine from your kidneys to your bladder. Many conditions, including kidney stones, cancer, and ureteral ...

Manometry, however, has limitations; it provides only an indirect measure of peristalsis, as the pressure waves recorded do not always correlate with the aboral forces applied to a solid or liquid ...

There was no pan-esophageal pressurization in controls. Nine of 10 patients with pan-esophageal pressurization required endoscopic bolus removal ... dysphagia and food impaction, the disease's ...