Meet the editor

Monjur Ahmed, MD, FRCP, is an Associate Professor of Medicine, at the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He has been a practicing gastroenterologist for twenty-four years. He has a special interest in biliary diseases, gastrointestinal bleeding, colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, gastrointestinal motility disorders, and dysphagia. He also serves as an editor-in-chief of the

*World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology*.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

Acute Management in Corrosive Ingestion

*by Prasit Mahawongkajit*

**Preface XI**

Dysphagia Due to Chemical Injury **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Dysphagia Due to Neurological Disorders **15**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 33**

Dysphagia Following Surgery **49**

**Chapter 4 51**

Management of Dysphagia **67**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 87**

*by Marina V. Petrova, Alexandr E. Shestopalov, Alexandra V. Yakovleva,* 

Dysphagia in Neuroinflammatory Diseases of the Central Nervous System

Dysphagia of Neurological Origin – Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis *by Maria Argente-Pla, Katherine Garcia-Malpartida, Andrea Micó-García,* 

*Silvia Martín-Sanchis and Juan Francisco Merino-Torres*

*by Fereshteh Ghadiri and Abdorreza Naser Moghadasi*

Dysphagia Following Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery

Nutrition Management in Neurogenic Dysphagia

Surgical Treatment of Esophageal Advanced Achalasia

*by José Luis Braga de Aquino and Vânia Aparecida Leandro-Merhi*

*by Ghazwan Hasan and Oscar L. Alves*

*Pranil Pradhan and Alexey A. Yakovlev*
