A case report in the New England Journal of Medicine featured an elderly woman with a very puzzling diagnosis—what doctors call a "corkscrew esophagus." According to the report, the 83-year-old ...

A dilated, sigmoid esophagus may be present in patients with long-standing achalasia. A corkscrew esophagus is often seen in patients with diffuse esophageal spasm. Endoscopy is performed to rule ...

An 87-year-old Swiss woman who suffered painful spasms in her chest turned out to have an esophagus that twisted itself into a corkscrew shape whenever she swallowed, according to a report of her ...

That means food and liquids come back up after you swallow them. Nutcracker or jackhammer esophagus. A twisted, or corkscrew-shaped, esophagus is often involved in powerful spasms. Regurgitation ...

Corkscrew esophagus, or Diffuse Esophageal Spasm, is a relatively rare esophageal motility disorder. Due to minimal available information on the pathogenesis of this occurrence, it is unclear whether ...