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The air pulse sensory test was invented by Dr. Jonathan E. Aviv MD, FACS in 1993, [1] and has been used by otolaryngologists (ear, nose and throat doctors), [2] pulmonologists (lung doctors), [3] gastroenterologists (stomach and digestion doctors), [4] intensivists (intensive care specialists) [5] and speech-language pathologists who perform ...
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) or oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD), also called by various other names, is a diagnostic endoscopic procedure that visualizes the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract down to the duodenum.
An endoscopy is a procedure used in medicine to look inside the body. [1] ... Occasionally the patient is left with a mild sore throat, which may respond to saline ...
Laryngoscopy (/ ˌ l ær ɪ ŋ ˈ ɡ ɒ s k ə p i /) is endoscopy of the larynx, a part of the throat.It is a medical procedure that is used to obtain a view, for example, of the vocal folds and the glottis.
The throat endoscopy can objectify that nothing is stuck, that there is no lesion or inflammation. The barium swallow can miss that the sphincter is hypertonic if it does not happen during the examination, or if the sphincter still relaxes enough for the food bolus to go through.
The literature describes relations between these webs and Plummer-Vinson Syndrome, bullous dermatologic disorders, inlet patch, graft-versus-host disease and celiac disease. The postulated mechanisms are sideropenic anemia (mechanism unknown) or some interference of the immune system. Esophageal webs can be ruptured during upper endoscopy.
An endoscopy is usually performed first to evaluate the anatomy, and a guidewire is passed into the stomach past the obstruction. This may also be done fluoroscopically. Bougies are again introduced—this time over the guidewire—in sequentially increasing sizes.
Transnasal esophagoscopy is an office based procedure in which the patient is anesthetized locally in the nose and sometimes the oropharynx.The scope is advanced into the ipsilateral pyriform sinus and through the esophageal inlet to the stomach, where the esophagus can be examined, with special attention paid to the gastroesophageal (GE) junction. [10]