Achalasia

Each chapter describes a very specific aspect of Achalasia by its known expert. Current diagnostic and management strategies of Achalasia, as well as the simplified operative approaches with relevant technical considerations, are outlined for the specific target audience. The treatment of Achalasia is complex and usually performed in specialized tertiary-care centres. The Editors' main goal is to render this disease more understandable and accessible to residents, fellows, and specialists in both the surgical disciplines (general surgery and thoracic surgery) and in gastroenterology.

This book aims to analyse key elements for the successful management of patients with Achalasia This book is written by world-class international esophageal surgeons and gastroenterologists The figures and illustrations throughout the book will depict fundamental anatomic or technical principles

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt

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.