Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A second endoscope was useful for ensuring a complete gastric myotomy during peroral endoscopic myotomy, or POEM ...

Since its birth in 2008, more than 3000 procedures have been done in over 50 centers worldwide; POEM is regarded as a first line management for all types of achalasia. Achalasia is a rare condition ...

Pneumatic dilation and laparoscopic Heller’s myotomy (LHM) are established treatments for idiopathic achalasia. Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a less invasive therapy with promising early study ...

The POEM procedure is performed to treat the swallowing disorder known as achalasia. Achalasia is a disorder of motility in the esophagus in which the esophagus has lost its normal ability to move ...

Use of per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for esophageal achalasia increased dramatically during the past decade, a retrospective study found, and while the procedure appears just as safe as ...

In this disease esophagus muscles do not squeeze and the sphincter muscle does not open, so food cannot pass through valve top on stomach. Achalasia is a disease where the function of the esophagus ...

An endoscope with a transparent cap enters through a 2 cm mucosal incision into the submucosal “third” space, approximately 5 cm proximal to the lower esophageal sphincter. Four distinct tissue layers ...

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a novel endoscopic procedure initially developed for achalasia, combining the performance of surgical myotomy with safety profile of an endoscopic procedure POEM ...

WASHINGTON — With 39% of patients denied coverage of per oral endoscopic myotomy and required to undergo laparoscopic Heller myotomy to treat functional esophageal outflow obstruction despite mounting ...

The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has released a clinical practice update synthesizing current available evidence and expert opinion on peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) to treat ...

Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) is a safe and novel endoscopic treatment modality available for achalasia. Since its birth in 2008, more than 3000 procedures have been done in over 50 centers ...