In rare cases, surgery is used to treat esophageal spasm.

In January 1987, she had an esophageal spasm that caused a near-death experience.

You can have both types of esophageal spasm.

Causes of diffuse esophageal spasm are not well understood.

Very cold and very hot beverages may trigger esophageal spasms.

The cause of esophageal spasm is unknown.

Your doctor can often find out the cause of esophageal spasm from your medical history by asking you a series of questions.

Doctors diagnosed him with esophageal spasm, reactive nervous syndrome and mental problems in 1967.

There are two main types of esophageal spasm:

Peppermint oil improves the manometric findings in diffuse esophageal spasm.

It has also been reported that very cold or hot beverages can trigger an esophageal spasm, and avoidance therapy benefits some people.

Esophageal spasms are uncommon.

Esophageal spasm.

Diffuse esophageal spasm.

Esophageal motility study is useful in cases of achalasia and diffuse esophageal spasms.

Heartburn or chest pain after eating or drinking and combined with difficulty swallowing may indicate esophageal spasms.

Esophageal spasms are irregular, uncoordinated, and sometimes powerful contractions of the esophagus, the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach.

Diffuse esophageal spasm (DES) is a condition in which uncoordinated contractions of the esophagus occur.

These include achalasia, diffuse esophageal spasm, nutcracker esophagus and hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter.

Treatment involves medications to treat concomitant conditions such as reflux (such as proton pump inhibitors) and esophageal spasm, and dilation of strictures in the esophagus.

Esophageal motility disorder - (Nutcracker esophagus, Achalasia, Diffuse esophageal spasm, GERD)

Treatment for esophageal spasm includes treating other conditions that may make esophageal spasms worse, such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

An intermittent motility dysphagia likely can be diffuse esophageal spasm (DES) or nonspecific esophageal motility disorder (NEMD).

Nutcracker esophagus is a disorder of the movement of the esophagus, and is one of many motility disorders of the esophagus, including achalasia and diffuse esophageal spasm.

The symptoms of esophageal spasm, erectile dysfunction and abdominal pain are attributed to the fact that hemoglobin released during hemolysis binds with circulating nitric oxide, a substance that is needed to relax smooth muscle.