Achalasia Diagnosis and Treatment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fisichella, P. Marco (Editor), Herbella, Fernando A. M. (Editor), Patti, Marco G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Thoracic surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Thoracic Surgery.

This comprehensive  book covers the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal achalasia. The successful management of patients with this disease, whose treatment can be complex and usually performed in specialized tertiary-care centres, is described by internationally renowned authors. Detailed operatio...

Table of Contents:

• 1.  A one hundred year journey: the history of surgery for esophageal achalasia
• 2. Pathophysiology of Achalasia
• 3. Clinical Presentation and diagnostic evaluation
• 4. Achalasia and Chagas Disease
• 5. Botulinum Toxin Injection
• 6. Pneumatic dilatation
• 7. Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM)
• 8. Heller Mytotomy for Achalasia: From the Thoracoscopic to the Laparoscopic Approach
• 9. Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy and Fundoplication: What Type?
• 10. Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy and Dor Fundoplication
• 11. Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy with Toupet Partial Posterior Fundoplication
• 12. Achalasia and Epiphrenic Diverticulum
• 13. Thoracoscopic Treatment of Epiphrenic Diverticula Associated with Achalasia
• 14. The Surgical Management of Achalasia in the Morbid Obese Patient
• 15. Treatment of Achalasia in the Patient with Dilated Esophagus
• 16. Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Recurrent Dysphagia after Heller Myotomy
• 17. Esophagectomy for End Stage Achalasia
• 18. Achalasia and Eating Disorders
• 19. Achalasia in the Pediatric Population.