Year 2022 / Volume 114 / Number 1
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Opioid-induced esophageal dysfunction — Prevalence and manometric findings

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2021.7598/2020

Luis Gerardo Alcalá-González, Alba Jiménez-Masip, Lucía Relea Pérez, Claudia Barber-Caselles, Elizabeth Barba-Orozco,

Abstract
Background: prescription opioid use is on the rise. There has been an increasing recognition that chronic opioid consumption can result in esophageal motility disorders, and this association has been named opioid-induced esophageal dysfunction (OIED). Aims: to analyze the prevalence of chronic opioid consumption in patients referred for esophageal motility testing in a European center; to describe the clinical characteristics and the association of opioid consumption with esophageal motility disorders. Methods: a retrospective, descriptive study in patients who had undergone an HRM in a single center. The clinical history in the electronic medical records was reviewed. Results: the prevalence of opioid prescription in patients referred to our institution was 10.1 %, and 4.8 % of them were chronic active opioid users. There was a 32 % prevalence of OIED. Comparing chronic active opioid users (CAOU) with OIED and CAOU patients without OIED, there was a higher prevalence of males (43.8 % vs 8.8 %; p-value = 0.007). Converting the different opioid medications to morphine milligram equivalent daily dose (MMED), CAOU patients with OIED had a higher MMED than CAOU patients without OIED (125.2 ± 31.3 vs 33.4 ± 5.7 MME; p = 0.041). Dysphagia was the most common indication for performing an HRM in 60.0 % of CAOU patients. Furthermore, dysphagia was more frequent in CAOU patients with OIED (87.5 % vs 47.0 %; p = 0.019). Conclusions: chronic opioid users with OIED complained mostly of dysphagia. There was an association of male sex and a higher dose of opioids in CAOU patients with esophageal motility disorders.
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Received: 20/10/2020

Accepted: 16/01/2021

Online First: 25/01/2021

Published: 10/01/2022

Article revision time: 72 days

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