Retrosternal chest pain only has cardiac causes... right?

In this episode, the lads welcome back Ben Earner as they try to make sense of the important pathologies affecting the oesophagus and the differing signs and symptoms these could manifest as.

Content covered:

- Signs/symptoms of oesophageal disease such as dyspepsia, dysphagia, odynophagia, waterbrash and the dreaded retrosternal chest pains

- Functional and mechanical obstructive disorders eg Achalasia and Schatzki rings

- Oesophageal Varices and portal hypertension

- Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD/GERD): causes and consequences

- Oesophagitis

- Barrett oesophagus

- Oesophageal adenocarcinoma

- Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma