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The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy and safety of peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) compared with pneumatic dilation in the treatment of esophageal achalasia.
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Esophageal achalasia is an esophageal motor disorder, which is characterized by the absence of esophageal peristalsis combined with a defective relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES). The major symptoms of esophageal achalasia are dysphagia, chest pain, and regurgitation of undigested food.
Currently, treatment options mainly focus on relief of the symptoms by reducing the LES pressure. Pneumatic dilation is the main endoscopic therapies for esophageal achalasia. However, the patients need repeat treatment to maintain therapeutic success and there is a risk of perforation (1%-3%). For surgery approaches, the laparoscopic Heller's myotomy (LHM) combined with Dor's antireflux procedure has gained considerable interest. The LHM can sustain therapeutic effects for long-term in approximately 80% of patients.
Recently, Inoue et al. succeeded in treating achalasia endoscopically with a method called peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) and achieved promising results in short-term. Technically, POEM derived from natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), in which a submucosal tunnel is created after submucosal injection, and then an endoscopic myotomy was made at the gastroesophageal junction.
However, the long-term efficacy and safety of POEM were not determined, and there was no prospective study that compared the POEM with other conventional treatment. Therefore, we aim to determine the efficacy and safety of POEM, compared with the pneumatic dilation, in the treatment of esophageal achalasia.
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200 participants in 2 patient groups
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Wei Gong, M.D.
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