Table 2 - Important causes of achalasia
From the following article
W.G. Paterson, Raj K. Goyal and Fortunée Irene Habib
GI Motility online (2006)
doi:10.1038/gimo20
| Idiopathic achalasia |
| Secondary achalasia |
| Malignancy (carcinoma of the stomach, esophagus, lung, pancreas, liver, colon, prostate, lymphoma, and mesothelioma) |
| Chagas' disease |
| Neuropathic chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction syndrome |
| Eosinophilic gastroenteritis |
| Neurodegenerative disorder with Lewy inclusion bodies |
| Amyloidosis |
| Postvagotomy |
| Multiple endocrine neoplasia type IIb |
| AAA syndrome: achalasia associated with alachrimia (juvenile Sjögren's syndrome) and achlohydria |
| Von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis |
| Anderson-Fabry disease |
| Sarcoidosis |
| Pseudoachalasia |
| Lesions producing radiological images resembling achalasia. (Masses around the esophagogastric junction, pancreatic pseudocyst, postvagotomy hematoma, tumors) |
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