Although much research on the mechanisms of portal hypertension has focused on liver fibrosis, less attention has been given to the role of intrahepatic and extrahepatic vascular dysfunction, ...

Your teeth grind the food you eat and mix it with saliva to form a kind of ball, known as a bolus. Your esophagus is a flattened muscular tube that connects your mouth to your stomach. As food is ...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic (long-term) condition affecting the esophagus, the tube that carries food and liquids from the mouth to the stomach. EoE causes symptoms like difficulty ...

The esophageal sphincter is a muscle at the bottom of your esophagus that acts like a one-way door. It opens to let food pass into your stomach and then closes tightly to keep it there. When this ...

“The reason the associations between retinal vasculature changes being associated with stroke is of little surprise is that developmentally speaking, the retina is actually an extension of the brai ...

The SEER database, however, does not group cancers by AJCC TNM stages (stage 1, stage 2, stage 3, etc.). Instead, it groups cancers into localized, regional, and distant stages: Localized means that ...

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