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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Peroral endoscopic myotomy is highly safe and effective for at least 1 year for the treatment of achalasia and ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Per-oral endoscopic myotomy, or POEM, showed a significantly higher success rate at 1 year compared ...

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 ...

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 ...

Achalasia is a disorder of motility in the esophagus in which the esophagus has lost its normal ability to move food and liquids down into the stomach. In addition, the lower esophageal sphincter, the ...

Ahmedabad: From a healthy 80kg, Nehal Dhajaniya (30) had become all bones, weighing merely 30kg, as she could not even swallow a few gulps of water, leave alone eat a meal. In three years, she changed ...

For years, Akia McDowell had been told she had gastroesophageal reflux disease, a common – yet unpleasant – digestive disorder in which stomach acid backs up into the esophagus. Then, one day in early ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A very simple act that we do day in and day out to stay alive was literally choking one Northeast Philadelphia woman. But she says a procedure done at Temple Health changed her ...

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 ...