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[Peroral endoscopic myotomy for treatment of achalasia. Literature review and own initial experience].
Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a new, purely endoscopic procedure for treatment of achalasia. Due to the lack of incisions POEM can be regarded as a true NOTES procedure. With POEM a myotomy is created in a similar fashion to the previous standard treatment, laparoscopic Heller myotomy (LHM). The relatively free choice of length and localization of the myotomy may be regarded as advantages of POEM. The procedure starts with a mucosal incision (mucosal entry) followed by preparation of a submucosal tunnel crossing the esophagogastric junction and creation of a myotomy in an antegrade direction before the mucosal access is closed with endoscopic clip placement. Since the first description of the application of POEM in humans in 2010 by the pioneer Haruhiro Inoue, Yokohama, Japan, it has been used increasingly and investigated in some centers in Asia, the U.S.A. and also Europe. The results are very promising. Although the procedure is technically demanding it can be performed safely with low complication rates. The POEM procedure achieves very good control of dysphagia and gastroesophageal reflux witch is only a rare side-effect witch is well-controllable with proton pump inhibitors (PPI). We review the currently available data from the literature and present our own initial series of 14 patients treated with POEM.
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