Comentários: As alterações motoras do esôfago presentes na esclerose sistêmica podem estar presentes em pacientes sem sintomas de envolvimento do orgão, o que indica que a avaliação da motilidade do esôfago deve ser realizada mesmo naqueles que não tem sintomas.
Esophageal high-resolution impedance manometry alterations in asymptomatic patients with systemic sclerosis: prevalence, associations with disease features, and prognostic value
Serena Vettori, Salvatore Tolone, Domenico Capocotta, Rossella Chieffo1, Veronica Giacco,
Gabriele Valentini, Ludovico Docimo
Clin Rheumatol. 2018 Feb 13. DOI : 10.1007/s10067-018-4026-1
ABSTRACT
This study aims to investigate pre-clinical esophageal involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) by high-resolution impedance manometry (HRiM), its associations with disease features including lung involvement, and its predictivity of esophageal symptoms overtime. Charts of 45 asymptomatic (no heartburn/regurgitation/dysphagia) SSc patients (96% females; mean age 46 years) with at least one follow-up (FU) visit and complete clinical, serological, functional, and radiological assessment, including high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the chest and lung function tests, that had undergone esophageal HRiM were retrospectively evaluated. Esophagogastric junction-contractile integral (EGJ-CI) and esophageal body motility, as evaluated by mean distal contractile integral (DCI), were assessed. SSc patients had a normal esophageal motility in 7/45 cases, a defective EGJ-CI in 28, an ineffective esophageal motility (IEM) in 17, and aperistalsis in 12. Defective EGJ-CI was associated with IEM/ aperistalsis in 20 cases, while 9 patients had isolated IEM. Defective EGJ-CI and/or IEM/aperistalsis were associated with a diffusing lung capacity for CO < 80% of predicted value (all p < 0.05), while defective EGJ-CI was also associated with interstitial lung disease on HRCT (p = 0.03). Prevalence of any HRiM abnormality was higher in anti-centromere antibody negative patients (all p < 0.05). IEM/aperistalsis independently increased the risk of esophageal symptoms by 2.3-fold (95% CI 1.1–5.7) and was associated with their higher cumulative incidence with respect to patients with other HRiM patterns at FU
(χ2 = 4.63; p = 0.03). SSc patients asymptomatic for esophageal involvement can have HRiM abnormalities in up to 84% of cases. A baseline-impaired motility is a risk factor for symptomatic esophageal disease.
