Presented by Alejandro Nieponice, MD at the SS12: Flexible / Therapeutic Endoscopy and NOTES held during the 2017 SAGES Annual Meeting in Houston, TX on Thursday, March 23, 2017
Keyword(s): diet, distensibility study, dysphagia, early discharge, Eckardt score, EGD, endoscope, endoscopic dilatation, esophagitis, fibrosis, flexible endoscopy, follow-up, gastric extension length, gastroesophageal reflux disease, health related quality of life, Hill Type II, hospital stay, HRQL, laparoscopic Heller myotomy, LES, LHM, lower esophageal sphincter, morbidity, NOTES, pain, pH control, pneumatic dilatation, POEM, postop, postoperative, postoperative GERD, PPIs, proton pump inhibitors, recurrence, recurrence rate, recurrent achalasia, reflux, repeat myotomy, repeat POEM, retroflexion, standard of care, team work, therapeutic endoscopy, threshold, tunnel, white paper