She couldn’t stomach it anymore. Natalie Bickel, from Indiana, has a rare condition called retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction, also known as no-burp syndrome, meaning that she has spent years ...

Some patients develop an inability to burp (abelchia) because the muscle that surrounds the bottom of the throat (the cricopharyngeus muscle) remains overly tight when they attempt to allow air to ...

This section describes efficacy outcomes from the published literature that the Committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see ...

Endoscopic carbon dioxide laser cricopharyngeal myotomy for relief of oropharyngeal dysphagia divides the cricopharyngeal muscle via an endoscope using a carbon dioxide laser, as an alternative to ...