Sessions

 

Session 23

 

Wednesday, September 2
2:00 – 4:00 pm

Room: Genevoix        

Interactions heart-esophagus

Friends or foes?

     
Chairs: Stephen J. Sontag (USA) – Richard W. McCallum (USA)

Discussant: Ram Dickman (Israel)

 

 

• Is there sound evidence to suggest that the esophagus IS a factor in NCCP? C. Prakash Gyawali (USA)
• Is there sound evidence to suggest that the esophagus is NOT a factor in NCCP?
  Stephen J. Sontag (USA)
• What is the potential course of a patient with cardiac chest pain that is misdiagnosed as NCCP?
  Richard W. McCallum (USA)
• How do you manage a patient with severe NCCP unresponsive to every conceivable therapy?
  Ellen Stein (USA)
• What is the long-term natural history of 100 patients with unequivocal NCCP?
  Richard W. McCallum (USA)
• Are there unconventional theories that might explain the entity known as NCCP? Larry S. Miller (USA)
• The long-term outcome of a VA population with angiogram-negative NCCP referred for EGD.
  Stephen J. Sontag (USA)

 

Discussant – with critique of the presentations. Ram Dickman (Israel)