ArticleJGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology2019
Frequency and factors associated with malnutrition among patients with achalasia and effect of pneumatic dilation.
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- Approach to anaemia in gastrointestinal disease: A position paper by the ESPGHAN Gastroenterology Committee.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2025Guideline
- Role of prehabilitative gastrostomy tube feeding to bridge severely malnourished surgically unfit achalasia patients to per-oral endoscopic myotomy.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2026Article
- Safe Use of POEM in a Patient With Decompensated Cirrhosis and Severe Achalasia.ACG case reports journal · 2023Article
- Esophageal achalasia with severe malnutrition and liver enzyme elevation.Clinical journal of gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Evaluating the impact of an enhanced triage process on the performance and diagnostic yield of oesophageal physiology studies post COVID-19.BMJ open gastroenterology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough achalasia patients are undernourished, studies are scant. We studied: (i) the frequency of malnutrition among these patients and (ii) the effect of pneumatic dilatation (PD) on malnutrition.
methodsA total of 70 adult achalasia patients and 70 healthy controls were evaluated through dietary recall, anthropometry, and biochemical parameters, and patients were reevaluated 6 months after PD.
resultsPatients had lower intake of calories (median, interquartile range [IQR]: 1835.0 [1682.5-1915.0]
conclusionsMalnutrition is common in achalasia patients, and PD improved it.
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