An 11-year-old boy presented to our pediatric pulmonology clinic with a 3-month history of atelectasis evident on his chest radiography. Breath sounds revealed fine crackles in the right lower zone and rhonchi upper zones. His initial pulmonary function test was compatible restrictive disease. Chest tomography that trachea, intermediate, middle lobe bronchi were narrowed by megaesophagus. Esoph...

INTRODUCTION Dysphagia is the important symptom in achalasia, and surgery is the most common treatment. The Heller-Pinotti technique is the method preferred by Brazilian surgeons. For many years, this technique was performed by laparotomy, and now the laparoscopic method has been introduced. The objective was to evaluate the immediate and long-term results of patients submitted to surgery by ei...

We report the case of a 65-year old patient without a history of alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking but with a history of gastroesophageal reflux disease for which he had never been examined. He was admitted to the Department of Pneumology for exploration of a dry hacking cough causing insomnia associated with diffuse heaviness in his right chest evolving over a month in a context of eve...

A 2-year-old male, intact Boxer was referred for chronic diarrhea, hyporexia, labored breathing, weakness and elevated creatine kinase, and alanine aminotransferase activities. Initial examination and diagnostics revealed a peripheral nervous system neurolocalization, atrial premature complexes, and generalized megaesophagus. Progressive worsening of the dog's condition was noted after 36 h; th...