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Dysphagia Of Rare Etiology
Author(s) -
Tridip Kumar Sengupta,
Soumya Mishra,
Magna Manjareeka
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
asian journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2347-5218
DOI - 10.15419/ajhs.v2i2.411
Subject(s) - dysphagia , medicine , etiology , swallowing , malignancy , surgery
Dysphagia is one of the most common symptoms among the gastrointestinal disorders. Along with this, the mass effect during deglutition in old age is suggestive of malignancy in the oesophagus, mostly in developing country like India. But dysphagia due to left atrial enlargement is extremely uncommon. We present a case of cardiac dysphagia,where dysphagia is due to left atrial enlargement compressing the oesophagus from outside (mechanical obstruction). The patient got relieved after administration of diuretics, which decreased the left atrial pressure and thereby the mechanical compression over the oesophagus was released.

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