Kaito Mihara, Shigeru Tsunoda, Tatsuto Nishigori, Shigeo Hisamori, Shintaro Okumura, Keiko Kasahara, Yusuke Fujita, Takashi Sakamoto, Tomoki Morimoto, Hiromitsu Kinoshita, Yoshiro Itatani, Nobuaki Hoshino, Ryosuke Okamura, Hisatsugu Maekawa, Koya Hida, Kazutaka Obama
BACKGROUND: Esophageal diverticulum is commonly associated with esophageal motility disorders, which can be diagnosed using high-resolution manometry (HRM) according to the Chicago classification. Although midesophageal diverticulum (M-ED) is associated with inflammatory processes, esophageal motility disorders have been recently identified as an etiology of M-ED. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a patient with M-ED and elevated intrabolus pressure (IBP), which did not meet the criteria for esophageal motility disorders according to the Chicago classification...
May 3, 2024: Surgical Case Reports