Is laparoscopic repair preferable to pneumatic dilation for patients with achalasia? The authors performed a randomized trial, assigning 95 patients to pneumatic dilation and 106 patients to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pneumatic dilation, or PD, with a 35-mm balloon compared with sham dilation was not superior for the treatment ...

The best long-term treatment results for patients with idiopathic achalasia have been achieved with pneumatic dilation or surgical myotomy. A new study adds evidence that good or excellent symptomatic ...

CHICAGO — Per-oral endoscopic myotomy, or POEM, showed a significantly higher success rate at 1 year compared with the gold standard pneumatic dilatation in achalasia patients who have not received ...

Lopushinsky SR and Urbach DR (2006) Pneumatic dilatation and surgical myotomy for achalasia. JAMA 296: 2227–2233 Achalasia is principally treated by either pneumatic dilatation (the preferred ...

The patient is an 80-year-old, nonobese woman with achalasia. Her hypertension is well controlled. She has had no weight loss and no aspiration; her presenting symptom is dysphagia. What is the ...