NYMC Faculty Publications
Ineffective Esophageal Motility is Associated with Impaired Bolus Clearance but does not Correlate with Severity of Dysphagia
Journal Title
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
First Page
811
Last Page
814
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
March 2019
Department
Medicine
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Ineffective esophageal motility (IEM) is defined as a distal contractile integral 0.01). There was a moderate inverse correlation between dysphagia and percent bolus clearance (R = - 0.37) in group A, but none in group B (R = 0.09). CONCLUSION: The classification of IEM did not discriminate from normal studies for symptom severity in our cohort. However, patients with IEM did have an inverse correlation between dysphagia score and bolus clearance, but those without IEM did not. Adding impedance information to the motor pattern classification should be considered in the symptom assessment in minor motility disorders.
Recommended Citation
Chugh, P., Collazo, T., Dworkin, B., & Jodorkovsky, D. (2019). Ineffective Esophageal Motility is Associated with Impaired Bolus Clearance but does not Correlate with Severity of Dysphagia. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 64 (3), 811-814. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-018-5384-x
