{"id":368,"date":"2023-04-18T18:39:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/?p=368"},"modified":"2023-04-18T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:39:17","slug":"9-what-do-you-need-to-elicit-from-the-history-of-dysphagia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"9. What do you need to elicit from the history of dysphagia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.synthesys.io\/js\/synthesys_widget.js?v=3.6\"><\/script>\n<script>\n    var sysWidget = new SysWidget({ token: \"eee2f8df-9b31-4e56-89ce-f2b2e89c15a4\" }); \n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Correct answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subjective site of obstruction is not always exact; the patient often merely points vaguely to behind the sternum. The diagnosis may be given by a history of swallowed caustic in the past. A previous story of reflux oesophagitis suggests a peptic stricture. Patients with achalasia tend to be young and the history is often long, usually without loss of weight. Malignant stricture has a short history, occurs in elderly people and is associated with severe weight loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct answer: The subjective site of obstruction is not always exact; the patient often merely points vaguely to behind the sternum. The diagnosis may be given by a history of swallowed caustic in the past. A previous story of reflux&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}