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1 Common symptoms include heartburn and painful swallowing.  If undiagnosed or untreated, esophagitis can cause problems with swallowing, ulcers, scarring of the esophagus, or Barrett's esophagus, which can be a precursor to esophageal cancer.
A bacterial, viral or fungal infection in tissues of the esophagus may cause esophagitis . Infectious esophagitis is relatively rare and occurs most often in people with poor immune system function, such as people with HIV/AIDS or cancer.