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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Due to the similarity of symptoms, achalasia can be misdiagnosed as other disorders, such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), hiatus hernia, and even psychosomatic disorders.
Differentiating Achlasia from other Disease
In alphabetical order. [1] [2]
- Amyloidosis
- Bronchial carcinoma
- Chagas disease
- Chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction
- Drugs
- Gastric carcinoma
- Herpes Zoster
- Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Idiopathic achalasia
- Ischemia
- Mesothelioma
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Postvagotomy
- Prostate cancer
- Radiation therapy
- Sarcoidosis
- Toxins
- Candida esophagitis