New Diagnostic Techniques for Esophageal Disorders

Mitochondrial disorders: Overview of diagnostic tools and new diagnostic trends

Mitochondrial disorders typically present with widespread, clinical features in all age groups and ethnicities and are often progressive and degenerative in nature. Because their clinical presentation is so variable and typically leads to widespread multisystem problems, diagnosis based on history and physical findings alone is often difficult, particularly for physicians unfamiliar with this g...

Esophageal Disorders

Recent trends of esophageal disorders in Japan are described. Diagnosis of esophageal cancer at early stages has come to be practiced extensively by means of endoscopic mucosal resection, which contributed greatly to improve the benefit of patients. As severity classification of gastroesophageal reflux disease has now been established, main study subjects of the disease are shifting to diagnosi...

Submandibular diagnostic and interventional sialendoscopy: new procedure for ductal disorders.

We present our initial experience with submandibular sialendoscopy, a new therapeutic approach for disorders of Wharton's duct. We review the sialendoscopes used and discuss their respective merits. We evaluated and treated 129 consecutive patients with suspected ductal disorders. Diagnostic sialendoscopy was used for classifying ductal lesions as sialolithiasis, stenosis, sialodochitis, or pol...

New Echocardiographic Techniques in Rare Cardiological Disorders

New Echocardiographic Techniques in Rare Cardiological Disorders