Answer here is B.... Not C...
In Achlasia, dysphagia is Progressive (
read One Liner - 52)
In few cases of Shatzki ring- it has been seen to have dysphagia for both solids and liquids (though majority cases have dysphagia for solids only) ref:
http://www.ajronline.org/content/171/5/1361.full.pdf
Also this
could be a wrong recall and the option might be Lower oesophageal
MUSCULAR ring -- if so then this can be the clear answer to the question -- ref :
http://rajgoyal.com/Publications/2000-03.pdf
A Schatzki’s ring can be differentiated from the muscular ring based on several findings.
Firstly , Although both types of rings present with intermittent chronic dysphagia, the history of liquid dysphagia seen in our three patients is distinctly unusual with a Schatzki’s ring.
Secondly, the radiological picture in both disorders is of a concentric narrowing in the distal esophagus. However, the muscular ring has a greater, donut-like rather than washer-like thickness, and is characteristically situated a few centimeters proximal to the location of the Schatzki’s ring at the squamocolumnar junction.
Thirdly, the manometric findings of high-amplitude contractions of the esophageal body distinguish the muscular ring from the Schatzki’s ring, in which motility studies are typically normal (10, 11).
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fourth, the majority of patients with Schatzki’s rings derive immediate and long-lasting relief from esophageal dilation (12), whereas the patients with symptomatic muscular rings had incomplete, short-lasting symptom relief after dilation.
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Also its important to note : The Schatzki ring, a submucosal fibrotic thickening of the lower esophagus, occurs at the squamocolumnar junction
ReplyDeleteAchlasia Cardia has "non-progressive contraction" within the esophageal body but has "progressive dysphagia."
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