PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | achalasia |
| Phenotype | C0042769|viral infection |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 26181569 | The association of achalasia with viral infections and autoantibodies against plexus has been reported; however, the causal relationship is unclear.4,5 the current treatment includes pharmacological agents, endoscopic pneumatic dilation,6–11 botulinum toxin12 or sclerosant substance injections,13 cardiac stent placement,12,14 per oral endoscopic myotomy (poem),15–17 and surgical myotomy.18–22 pharmacological therapy is administered primarily as a subordinate treatment. |
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