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The authors present the case of 36 years old patient with dysphagia. This symptom appeared three years ago and became more severe for six month. The endoscopic and radiologic examinations revealed achalasia of the cardia. The surgical treatment was performed. Two weeks after surgery all symptoms disappeared. We present this case because achalasia of the cardia is comparatively rare disease which diagnostic is not easy.
Otolaryngol Pol 1995
PMID:[Difficulties in diagnosis of esophageal achalasia]. 764 13

In this review achalasia of the esophagus is presented. Attention is drawn to the prevalence, pathology, symptomatology, diagnostic procedures and several treatment options.
Pol Merkur Lekarski 1998 Apr
PMID:[Achalasia of the esophagus]. 977 Oct 4

The authors present a case of an 18-year-old woman, were referred to an allergologist because of a suspicion of bronchial asthma. She had complained of respiratory symptoms: chronic bronchitis for three years, cough and dyspnoea. Auscultation revealed wheezies and rales. Spirometry showed severe airway obstruction. Because of negative result of a reversibility test, ex iuvantibus treatment with prednisone was used but no results were obtained. The next step of diagnostic procedure was computed tomography which revealed the trachea compression by the dilated oesophagus. Finally she was found by us to have esophageal achalasia. Pharmacological treatment with nifedipine did not give an improvement. After operation the asthmatic symptoms disappeared and marked improvement was found in the flow-volume curve and in the chest radiogram. The demonstrated case proves that esophageal achalasia should be considered as one of the differential diagnoses of pathological respiratory symptoms suggesting asthma difficult to treat.
Pol Merkur Lekarski 2004 Nov
PMID:[Pseudoasthmatic syndrome due to achalasia cardiae]. 1575 37

The authors presented a case of squamous cell oesophageal cancer in a patient after surgical treatment of achalasia performed five years earlier. The patient complained of the recurrent dysphagia. During endoscopy of the upper gastrointestinal tract a malignant tumor in the lower part of oesophagus was diagnosed and the patient was operated on. He survived for five years.
Pol Merkur Lekarski 2004 Dec
PMID:[Squamous cell oesophageal cancer in patient after surgical treatment of achalasia]. 1577 Nov 38

A 65-year-old woman with rheumatic heart disease and severe mitral stenosis developed dysphagia. As her dysphagia could not be directly attributed to an enlarged left atrium, she underwent barium swallow, which established the diagnosis of achalasia. This case report shows two unrelated diseases present in the same patient which individually can cause dysphagia.
Kardiol Pol 2009 Dec
PMID:A case of mitral stenosis with achalasia. 2005 69