The Clinical Application of Esophageal Motility Tests
Authors: MAURICE L. KELLEY
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1963)

Article1 September 1963The Clinical Application of Esophageal Motility TestsMAURICE L. KELLEY JR., M.D., F.A.C.P.MAURICE L. KELLEY JR., M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-59-3-338 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptPressure recordings from the esophagus and its sphincters, while originally of primarily physiological interest, are becoming useful in clinical medicine to evaluate motor disorders of this portion of the alimentary tract. After elucidation of the resting pressures and those following the act of deglutition in healthy subjects, investigations were extended in several laboratories (particularly those of Code (1, 2), Ingelfinger (3), Hightower (4), and Texter, Smith, Moeller, and Barbarka (5)), to study the patterns occurring in pathological conditions. Manometric esophageal studies have, in some centers, proven so valuable in the diagnosis of disturbances of the esophagus that they have become...References1. CODECREAMERSCHLEGELOLSENDONOGHUEANDERSEN CFBJFAMFEHA: An Atlas of Esophageal Motility in Health and Disease. Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1958. Google Scholar2. CODE CF: The physiologic basis of some disorders of motor function of the esophagus. Postgrad. Med. 26: 265, 1959. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. INGELFINGER FJ: Esophageal motility. Physiol. Rev. 38: 533, 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. HIGHTOWER NC: Swallowing and esophageal motility. Amer. J. Dig. Dis. (New Series) 3: 562, 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. TEXTERSMITHMOELLERBARBORKA ECHWHCCJ: Intraluminal pressures from the upper gastrointestinal tract. Gastroenterology 32: 1013, 1957. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar6. OLSENCODECLAGETT AMCFOT: Role of motility patterns in the diagnosis of esophageal disease. JAMA 172: 319, 1960. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar7. KRAMERINGELFINGER PFJ: Cardiospasm, a generalized disorder of esophageal motility. Amer. J. Med. 7: 174, 1949. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar8. BUTINOLSENMOERSCHCODE JWAMHJCF: A study of esophageal pressures in normal persons and patients with cardiospasm. Gastroenterology 23: 278, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar9. TEXTERSMITHSTICKLEYBARBORKA ECHWJHCJ: The nature of achalasia. Gastroenterologia 36: 187, 1956. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. CREAMERANDERSENCODE BHACF: Esophageal motility in patients with scleroderma and related diseases. Gastroenterologia 86: 763, 1956. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar11. CODEKELLEYSCHLEGELOLSEN CFMLJFAM: Pressure characteristics of hiatal hernia. Gastroenterology 43: 521, 1962. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar12. CREAMERDONOGHUECODE BFECF: Pattern of esophageal motility in diffuse spasm. Gastroenterology 34: 782, 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar13. RODNANFENNELL GPRH: Progressive systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma. JAMA 180: 665, 1962. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar14. CODESCHLEGELKELLEYOLSENELLIS CFJFMLAMFH: Hypertensive gastroesophageal sphincter. Proc. Mayo Clin. 35: 391, 1960. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: MAURICE L. KELLEYJR., M.D., F.A.C.P.Affiliations: Rochester, New YorkFrom the Department of Medicine of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.This investigation was supported by research grant A-4097 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Maurice L. Kelley, Jr., M.D., Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 260 Crittenden Blvd., Rochester 20, New York. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byThe Abnormal EsophagusAtypical Chest PainDiagnosis and surgical management of benign diseases of the esophagusOesophagus bei Sklerodermie und anderen KollagenosenGiant Muscular Hypertrophy of the EsophagusOesophageal Reflux–Normal or Pathological?Experimentelle Untersuchungen �ber den Kardiadruck im Wach- und NarkosezustandZur Therapie der kindlichen Achalasie (sogenannter Kardiospasmus)The Pressure Inversion Point: Its Genesis and ReliabilityDetermination of Yield Pressures: A Method for Measuring Anal Sphincter CompetenceThe Present Status of Esophageal ManometryThe EsophagusEsophageal motor function 1 September 1963Volume 59, Issue 3Page: 338-350KeywordsArthritisDentistryDysphagiaEsophagusHerniaMetabolic disordersResearch grantsScleroderma ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 September 1963 PDF downloadLoading ...