CHICAGO — Per-oral endoscopic myotomy, or POEM, showed a significantly higher success rate at 1 year compared with the gold standard pneumatic dilatation in achalasia patients who have not received ...

The best long-term treatment results for patients with idiopathic achalasia have been achieved with pneumatic dilation or surgical myotomy. A new study adds evidence that good or excellent symptomatic ...

Is laparoscopic repair preferable to pneumatic dilation for patients with achalasia? The authors performed a randomized trial, assigning 95 patients to pneumatic dilation and 106 patients to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pneumatic dilation, or PD, with a 35-mm balloon compared with sham dilation was not superior for the treatment ...

Lopushinsky SR and Urbach DR (2006) Pneumatic dilatation and surgical myotomy for achalasia. JAMA 296: 2227–2233 Achalasia is principally treated by either pneumatic dilatation (the preferred ...

The patient is an 80-year-old, nonobese woman with achalasia. Her hypertension is well controlled. She has had no weight loss and no aspiration; her presenting symptom is dysphagia. What is the ...

The demand for achalasia treatment experienced a major rise in 2020 owing to the spread of Covid-19 crisis across the globe as the crisis created an emergent need to focus on health and well-being of ...