achalasia
Posted Sunday 24 January 2010 - 23:30 PM by David Chan
First Line Drugs
- NIFEDIPINE (C08CA05)
Reference
Comments/Instructions
Sublingual nifedipine results in excellent or good clinical results in approximately 75% of adults with mild to moderate achalasia. For those patients not responding to pharmacotherapy, laparoscopic or thoracic myotomy is more effective than either botulinum toxin injection or pneumatic dilation
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- Gastroenterology
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