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Esophageal Strictures
Has anyone here been treated for an esophageal stricture? I had one when I was a kid. Long story, but I ended up having an emergency appendectomy during that time and my intubation tube in surgery opened my stricture right up. Thinking I may have a stricture again (waiting for my dr. appointment) and wondering what treatment/the procedure is like from an SMA perspective.
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Honestly never heard of it. Curious how they find out. Swallow study? Endoscopy? I’ve had both of those procedures done but for different reasons.
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It’s typically detected through a barium swallow. Then I believe the procedure is like an endoscopy with a little balloon attached to the end of it and they go in and inflate the stricture. Did you need anesthesia for your endoscopy?
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They wanted to put me under, but I talked them into doing it with twilight sedation and it was fine.
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