A Schatzki ring is a thin ring of tissue in your esophagus. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatment options for this condition today.

A Schatzki ring often leads to difficulty in swallowing solid foods, so it’s important to make sure that you eat slowly and chew all food thoroughly before swallowing.

As you say in your letter, Schatzki’s ring is a restriction in the esophagus. More specifically, it is a circular band of membrane that develops on the organ’s interior surface.

A Schatzki ring is a band of tissue that can develop at the lower end of the food pipe. Here, learn about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and more.

For Schatzki's rings associated with other conditions such as eosinophilic esophagitis and gastroesophageal reflux disease, treatment should be directed at the underlying disease after the ring ...

In this Endo-Sketch, a Healio video series on clinical conditions and procedures named after famous colleagues, Klaus Mergener, MD, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses ...

THE differential diagnosis of dysphagia must include consideration of the lower esophageal ring. This entity was first described in 1953 by Schatzki and Gary1 and Ingelfinger and Kramer2 as a const ...

Sgouros et al. found bougienage with dilation increments >2 mm and without fluoroscopic guidance to be safe and effective for the treatment of 44 patients who had a type B Schatzki's ring ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: Our son, 35, lives and studies in England. He was having trouble swallowing. After many X-rays he was told that he had “Schatzki’s ring.”What is this, and what i… ...

The narrowing of the esophagus caused by a Schatzki’s ring can make it difficult to swallow. When someone with the condition eats or drinks, it can cause a sensation of something being stuck … ...

These include Schatzki’s ring, the condition you are living with. As you say in your letter, Schatzki’s ring is a restriction in the esophagus.

It brought to mind the condition I have called Schatzki’s ring, which is a restriction in the esophagus. I wonder if the granddaughter may have a similar problem. Could you discuss Schatzki’s ring?