This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Ezra N Teitelbaum during the Achalasia Management: Nuanced Care for a Rare Disease on April 13 2018
Keyword(s): achalasia, anatomy, balloon, Botox, botulinum toxin injection, chest pain, comparative trials, complications, diagnosis, dysphagia, EGJ outflow obstruction, endoscopic, endoscopy, esophagogastrojejunostomy outflow obstruction, esophagram, Eurpoean achalasia trial, failure rate, fluoroscopic, food bolus, high resolution manometry, HRM, laparoscopic Heller myotomy, LES, lower esophageal sphincter, male, mechanical obstruction, medication, meta-analysis, non selective smooth muscle relaxants, non-surgical treatments, odds ratio, outcome measures, pathophysiology, per oral endoscopic myotomy, perforation, pneumatic dilation, POEM, predictors, randomized trial, recurrent symptoms, residents, side effects, single-center, spastic achalasia, stomach, swallowing, symptomatic relief, thoracotomy, Type II, Type III, UGI, upper gastrointestinal, wire
Diagnostic evaluation–43 sec
Treatments–58 sec
Medication–1:52
Botox–2:25 Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006
Pneumatic dilation–3:20 Ann Surg 2013
Pneumatic dilation outcomes–4:24 Clin Exp Gastroenterol 2017
Best available evidence…–5:39 NEJM 2011
Conclusion–8:44