Results: Stents were placed successfully in all patients ... the vast majority of patients with malignant obstructions of the esophagus is dysphagia. The relief of this condition associated ...

Most patients who undergo the recommended treatment for esophageal cancer are able to come off of the feeding tube eventually ...

PCI of these lesions often requires novel devices, such as drug-eluting stents, hydrophilic guidewires, distal protection balloons or filters, thrombectomy catheters, rotational atherectomy ...

Dysphagia: difficulty swallowing. Esophageal stenosis: narrowing of the esophagus. Peripheral sensory neuropathy: damage to nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord. Stomatitis: Inflammation or ...

Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica was discharged Sunday from a Montevideo Casmu sanatorium after undergoing a surgical procedure Friday during which a stent was placed in his esophagus ...

This is so it does not interfere with the blood pressure response during the actual stent procedure. On the morning of the stent procedure, make sure you take aspirin and other blood thinning ...

The cancer typically begins in the inner layer of the esophagus wall and grows outward, but it can start anywhere. Esophageal cancer is a rare cancer, accounting for just 1 percent of cancer cases ...

Driven by obesity and acid reflux, esophageal cancer has become the fastest rising cancer in Caucasian men in the United States. The thoracic oncologists and gastroenterologists at the Baylor St. Luke ...