The LINX® System augments the weak Lower Esophageal Sphincter (LES) to help prevent reflux. The LINX® System is a small, flexible band of magnets enclosed in titanium beads. The beads are connected by ...

This occurs when the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) weakens or relaxes. The LES is a muscular ring that normally prevents stomach contents from flowing back up. Gastroesophageal reflux disease ...

When you swallow, a band of muscle around the esophagus, called the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), relaxes to let food and ...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) causes heartburn and discomfort. Learn its symptoms, triggers, treatments, and how to manage it with changes in diet and lifestyle.

The pathophysiology of GERD includes impairment of the anti-reflux barrier, which consists of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and crural diaphragm, coupled with impaired esophageal clearance ...

In the present study, also signs were improved including lower esophageal sphincter (LES) pressure (from 10 ± 1.58 and, 10.3 ± 1.68 mmHg in the pretreated patients to 16.5 ± 0.6, and 14.1 ± 0. ...

Ginger eases pressure on the lower esophageal sphincter and improves gastric emptying. Without reducing this pressure, the risk of the sphincter failing increases, allowing stomach acid to flow ...

A laparoscopic Heller myotomy is a surgical procedure used to treat achalasia, a condition in which the esophagus doesn't push food and liquid into the stomach effectively and the lower esophageal ...

and has produced increased peristaltic and lower esophageal sphincter pressures in normal volunteers. Agrawal et al. evaluated the effect of bethanechol on smooth-muscle contraction in patients ...