Achalasia (eBook, PDF)

Diagnosis and Treatment
Redaktion: Fisichella, P. Marco; Patti, Marco G.; Herbella, Fernando A. M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 operations and current diagnostic and management strategies are discussed, giving the reader expert knowledge in specific aspects of Achalasia.

Achalasia: Diagnosis and Treatment is ideal for residents, fellows and specialists in both general and thoracic surgical disciplines as well as in gastroenterology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319135694
• Artikelnr.: 43909969

Inhaltsangabe

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.