The Edrophonium Response: Use in Diagnosis and Possible Understanding of Mechanisms of Esophageal Chest Pain

Richter, Joel E.; Wu, W. C.; Blackwell, J. N.; Johns, Doree N.; Hackshaw, Barry T.; Do, Castell

doi:10.1007/978-94-010-9352-1_3

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How Can We Provoke the Pain And The Motility Disorder?1

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“…There is also evidence that although the amplitude and duration of peristaltic contractions increases in patients who do not experience edrophonium provoked pain, the degree of response in patients who do experience pain appears quantitatively greater. 32 We would suggest that at present the routine use of edrophonium as a stress test provides the best available provocative agent in the diagnosis of oesophageal dysmotility causing chest pain.…”

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