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Esophageal Self Dilation Therapy: An Effective Alternative Sep 17 10:39am | By Kanaaz Pereira, Connect Moderator (@kanaazpereira)
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@walisky

My husband will be having this done for the 2nd time. We cannot imagine this being done by anyone except a professional and under anesthesia.

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magnushalland | @magnushalland | Jan 11, 2019

Best wishes for your husband. It is fortunately only a small group of patients who simply don't stay open very long after endoscopic dilatations done under anesthesia. In such patients, many of whom have undergone 10 or more endoscopies, we teach self-dilation, which helps maintain the opening which has recently been achieved during an endoscopic procedure.

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