Sentences with phrase «upper esophageal»

The swallowing condition is currently called cricopharyngeal dysfunction because abnormalities appear to involve the upper esophageal sphincter.

The abnormality was located in the upper esophageal sphincter and there was a lot of variation in the affected dogs.

Among the tools being used is a high - resolution manometry (HRM) catheter to get a pressure profile of the esophagus from the upper esophageal sphincter, all the way down to the lower esophageal sphincter where the hernia occurs.

UES = upper esophageal sphincter and LES = lower esophageal sphincter.

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Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have identified cells in the upper digestive tract that can give rise to Barrett's esophagus, a precursor to esophageal cancer.

Our finding of sinusitis, bronchial hyperreactivity, and bronchial responsiveness in firefighters with World Trade Center cough is important but not surprising.17 - 20 An unexpected finding was that 87 percent of such firefighters reported symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease; such symptoms are generally reported by less than 25 percent of patients with chronic cough.1, 21,22 Despite the strong associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and chronic cough17 - 20 and between gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma,23 - 25 it remains unclear whether gastroesophageal reflux disease causes either condition.26 The causative mechanism may be repeated aspiration of minute amounts of refluxed material; vagally mediated esophageal, tracheobronchial, or laryngobronchial cough reflexes; or neurally mediated bronchial inflammation.23, 24,26 Involvement of the posterior nasopharynx is common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, 27 whereas bronchial hyperreactivity may not be present.25, 26 For these reasons, we classified gastroesophageal reflux disease as an upper - airway symptom (Figure 2).

In the case of long - gap esophageal atresia, the disconnect between the upper and lower tubes is at least several centimeters in length.

The role of your gastrointestinal tract, which includes your esophageal area, stomach, and your upper and lower intestinal tracts, is to take in the food you eat, break it down to molecule - size pieces, and have it absorbed into your body in a controlled way.

With allergic eosinophilic gastroenteritis, the esophageal area, stomach and upper intestinal tract can become inflamed compromising its proper function.

This allows for more accurate diagnosis and treatment of oral, esophageal, stomach, colon and upper intestinal tract disease.

This allows for more accurate diagnosis and treatment of oral, esophageal, stomach, colon and even upper intestinal tract disease.

Dr. Philipp Mayhew, an associate professor in the Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, got a grant for a multi-departmental collaboration — with Dr. Stanley Marks in Medicine and Epidemiology — to study the effect of upper - airway surgical treatment on brachycephalic dog breeds (including Bulldogs, Boston terriers, pugs, boxers, shih tzus, Pekingese) with obstruction syndrome in their lower esophageal area.

Overall, study participants in the top 20 percent for red - meat intake were 79 percent more likely than those in the bottom 20 percent to develop esophageal squamous cell carcinoma — a cancer that arises in the lining of the upper part of the esophagus.