Timing of Pharyngeal Swallow Events in Chagas’ Disease

BACKGROUND: Esophageal involvement by Chagas’ disease causes a significative decrease in the number of neurons of the esophageal myenteric plexus, causing an impairment of esophageal motility with the same alterations described in primary esophageal achalasia. There is also a longer duration of phar...

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Published in:Gastroenterology Res
Main Authors: dos Santos, Carla Manfredi, Cassiani, Rachel de Aguiar, do Nascimento, Weslania Viviane, Dantas, Roberto Oliveira
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Elmer Press 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040523/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27785276
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.14740/gr616w
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