Symptomatic and physiologic outcomes one year after peroral esophageal myotomy (POEM) for treatment of achalasia

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3359-3365

  Teitelbaum, Ezra N ^a   Soper, Nathaniel J ^a   Santos, Byron F ^b   Arafat, Fahd O ^a   Pandolfino, John E ^a   Kahrilas, Peter J ^a   Hirano, Ikuo ^a   Hungness, Eric S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Esophageal physiology; Gastroesophageal reflux; Laparoscopic Heller myotomy; Peroral endoscopic myotomy; POEM

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL ORIFICE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931321234     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-014-3628-1     Document Type: Article

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