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4worldlovers: Roopa Vemulapalli, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of small bowel diseases and has special expertise in managing celiac disease, short bowel syndrome, hereditary gastrointestinal cancer syndromes, and related conditions.

Dr. Vemulapalli earned her medical degree at Kakatiya Medical College in India and completed a residency in internal medicine at Chicago’s Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital. She received advanced training through a clinical nutrition fellowship at the University of Chicago Hospital and a gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at UT Southwestern.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in gastroenterology, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2010.

Dr. Vemulapalli serves as Medical Director of UT Southwestern’s Digestive Disease Clinic. She is Co-Chair of the Access Working Group for the Ambulatory Operations Council and a member of UT Southwestern’s Racial Diversity, Inequality, and Inclusion Committee and EMR Optimization Physician Group Committee.

Additionally, she is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology, the Texas Medical Association, and the Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy.

Her research interests include small bowel imaging, double balloon enteroscopy, autoimmune gastritis, and colon cancer. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Nutrition and Dietetics, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Journal of Investigative Medicine, and ACG Case Reports.

Dr. Vemulapalli has been included in D Magazine's Best Doctors list every year since 2018, and she is one of Becker’s Healthcare’s 10 Gastroenterologists to Know for 2021.

From irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to chronic acid reflux to celiac disease, many people suffer from small bowel disorders to varying degrees. UT Southwestern Medical Center gastroenterologist Roopa Vemulapalli, M.D., specializes in evaluating and treating a wide variety of these problems.

Dr. Vemulapalli’s areas of expertise include IBS, gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and tumors, ulcers, constipation, celiac disease, short bowel syndrome, and hereditary GI cancer syndromes.

In addition to performing screening and diagnostic colonoscopies and upper endoscopies, Dr. Vemulapalli has special expertise in advanced endoscopic procedures such as capsule endoscopy and balloon- and spiral overtube-assisted deep enteroscopy.

Her comprehensive, individualized approach to care helps restore health and well-being to many of her patients.

“I’m able to help a significant number of our patients get relief from the abdominal ailments that have plagued them for many years,” Dr. Vemulapalli says.

“I strive to improve my patients’ quality of life, and I derive immense satisfaction from being able to do that.”

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Achalasia is an incurable disease that affects the lower esophageal sphincter. The normal lower esophageal sphincter functions to relax by opening to accommodate a food bolus when humans swallow. The nerves are activated during a swallow to signal the lower esophageal sphincter to relax and open as food, liquids, and/or air can pass. With achalasia, the nerves don't work properly and the sphincter cannot relax and open. This causes the inability to get food from the esophagus into the stomach to continue with digestion. Patients usually experience regurgitation of food and liquids and experience chest pain. Weight loss is a common symptom experienced by patients with achalasia.

There is no known cause, but there are some hypothesized theories that haven't been proven.

Achalasia is often misdiagnosed as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Patients will proceed with the standard treatments for GERD without relief. This will typically prompt further investigation revealing a diagnosis of achalasia.

The definitive diagnosis is made with a test called an esophageal manometry. This test is done with a skinny probe with multiple sensors down its entire length that is passed through the patient's nose and into the esophagus. The patient is then asked to swallow small amounts of water, usually 10 swallows are performed, and the probe will be able to sense the function of the esophagus' ability to push the water down into the esophagus and measure the pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter at rest and whether it relaxes. This is the gold standard to make a definitive diagnosis.

Sometimes, findings on an upper GI swallow study with barium can help allude to the diagnosis based on the dilated appearance of the esophagus and the abrupt narrowing at the lower esophageal sphincter. During this workup, the patient should have an upper endoscopy to help rule out some other cause for the appearance of the narrowing such as a tumor or scar tissue.

There are several treatments available for achalasia. Achalasia does not go away on its own, and there is no cure. The treatments available only make it possible for esophageal contents to pass through the lower esophageal sphincter and into the stomach.

Pneumatic dilation and Botox injections have been used by gastroenterologists for decades that have varied success. Both modalities require serial treatments and have a significant overall failure rate associated with them.

Esophagomyotomy, or commonly called Heller myotomy, is a procedure that has been performed for nearly a century. This procedure is most commonly done through the abdomen, but can also be done through the chest. The procedure is performed to cut the lower esophageal sphincter relieving the obstruction. Relief of symptoms is very high and recurrence rates are low. This has been regarded at the standard of care for patients with achalasia.