Sentence examples for functional obstruction from inspiring English sources

Treatment of achalasia is directed at removing the functional obstruction caused by nonrelaxing LES.

The muscle hypertrophy may due to longstanding functional obstruction at the LES.

Under such circumstances, the functional obstruction of the gastroesophageal junction is caused by the residual myogenic tone of the LES.

Impaired relaxation of the LES causes functional obstruction and progressive esophageal dilation, stasis of food, and secondary elevation in basal intraesophageal pressures.

We describe a unique case of emergency percutaneous cecostomy for functional obstruction because of severe neutropenic colitis of the sigmoid colon.

This condition is caused by functional obstruction of the distal ileum by very dense meconium.

Song, EJ; Kelsey, CR; Driehuys, B; Rankine, L, Functional airway obstruction observed with hyperpolarized 129 Xenon-MRI., Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, vol. 62 no. 1 (February, 2018), pp. 91-93 [doi].

Song, EJ; Kelsey, CR; Driehuys, B; Rankine, L, Functional airway obstruction observed with hyperpolarized 129 Xenon-MRI., Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, vol. 62 no. 1 (February, 2018), pp. 91-93 [abs] [abs].

MMIHS occurs in the GI tract and urinary bladder, and is the most severe form of functional intestinal obstruction in newborns [45].

One infant was born with cleft palate, and one with functional ileal obstruction.

Over time, mucin accumulation in the peritoneal cavity gradually causes massive symptomatic distension and functional gastrointestinal obstruction.