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Familial esophageal achalasia in mother and son

Familial esophageal achalasia a rare presentation, is most often described in monozygotic twins or siblings. Parent/child association is very rare and exhaustive review of the literature found about 5 times as many instances of affected siblings than instances of affected parent/child. Only seven instances of parent/child association have been reported till date. We report a 75 -year-old lady with achalasia cardia and her son who developed the same illness one year later. Mother was treated by Heller's surgery and son is presently on medical management.