The clinical practice update offers 12 “best practice advice” statements on POEM to treat achalasia and other esophageal ...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic esophageal inflammatory disease of undetermined pathophysiology that results in dense mucosal eosinophilia and esophageal dysfunction. In childhood ...

A transcutaneous electrical stimulation system (TESS) is effective in reducing both symptoms and esophageal acid exposure ...

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

The digestive system comprises several organs, all working in concert to turn the food you eat into energy. But sometimes, illness or injury can lead to a digestive disease that threatens your ...

The mean numbers of daily heartburn and regurgitation episodes were 2.55 and 1.40, respectively, which dropped to 0.77 and 0.36, respectively, following transcutaneous electrical stimulation.

Patients who traveled to high-volume centers for esophagectomy experienced better outcomes than those who sought treatment ...

esophageal cancer makes up about 1% of all cancers diagnosed in the United States. The agency projects 22,000 new cases and 16,000 deaths from the disease in 2025. Frazzitta said his case evolved ...

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