welcomes you to the new, improved website!
Esophagus - Motility Disorders
A medium-size RCT on the growing research question of efficacy of peroral myotomy for achalasia, with a 17% failure to improve symptoms in the peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) arm, is discussed in this article. It...
Interesting sizeable series, and a commentary that follows, on what is effectively a thoracic example of Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES).
...Raja and colleagues evaluated the return of symptoms and rate of reintervention following Heller myotomy for achalasia. Over a seven-year period, 248 patients underwent Heller myotomy. The majority of patients,...
Patient Care To commemorate its 15th anniversary, the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai, India, has pledged to subsidize the costs of 15 heart transplants for patients who cannot afford them....
The authors tested a group of 176 patients undergoing cardiac surgery for dysphagia both preoperatively and postoperatively. Preoperatively, 8.5% of patients failed the swallow test. Postoperatively, 21.6% failed the test....