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Surgical management of achalasia
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, 2020 Esophageal achalasia is a primary esophageal motility disorder characterized by lack of peristalsis and by incomplete or absent relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter in response to swallowing. The cause of the disease is unknown.
Kamil Nurczyk, Marco G. Patti
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Miotomia laparoscopica secondo Heller per acalasia esofagea. C’è bisogno di una fundoplicatio? [PDF]
, 2009 The last decade has witnessed radical changes in the treatment of esophageal achalasia due to the development of minimally invasive techniques. Because of the high success rate of the laparoscopic Heller myotomy, a radical shift in the treatment ...
Fisichella, Piero Marco, Patti, Marco G.
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Current status of robot-assisted surgery [PDF]
, 2014 The introduction of robot-assisted surgery, and specifically the da Vinci Surgical System, is one of the biggest breakthroughs in surgery since the introduction of anaesthesia, and represents the most significant advancement in minimally invasive surgery
Ng, ATL, Tam, PC
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Achalasia : what to do in the face of failures of Heller myotomy [PDF]
, 2020 Achalasia is a primary motility disorder of the esophagus, and while there are several treatment options, there is no consensus regarding them. When therapeutic intervention for achalasia fails, a careful evaluation of the cause of the persistent or ...
Bonavina L. +3 more
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Peroral endoscopic myotomy as a new approach in the treatment of patients with achalasia cardia
Медицина неотложных состоянийBackground. Achalasia cardia is a disease characterized by an esophageal motility disorder in which the lower esophageal sphincter fails to fully relax in response to swallo-wing and esophageal motility progressively decreases.
O.M. Kiosov, M.B. Danyliuk, M.A. Kubrak
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Achalasia: Dilation, Injection or Surgery?
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2000 Achalasia results from irreversible alterations of the esophageal myenteric plexus. The target of treatment in this setting is to reduce lower esophageal sphincter resistance to passage of the bolus. Definitive treatment of the disease requires pneumatic
Alberto Peracchia, Luigi Bonavina
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Frequency of Herpes Virus (HSV) in Esophageal Muscle Samples among Patients with Achalasia under Heller Myotomy [PDF]
, 2021 Tahmaseb Jouzdani +5 more
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Third space endoscopy: Current evidence and future development
International Journal of Gastrointestinal Intervention, 2020 Therapeutic endoscopy has evolved tremendously over the past decades and the development of submucosal endoscopy opens the third space for treatment of gastrointestinal diseases.
Alex Qinyang Liu, Philip Wai Yan Chiu
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Robotic Heller-Dor myotomy: 10-year monocentric experience compared with POEM [PDF]
, 2020 Achalasia is a rare motility disorder caused by an incomplete relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter and loss of esophageal peristalsis. As a consequence, the bolus swallowing is hindered and the patients complain dysphagia, regurgitation, chest ...
Fellegara, Raffaele +7 more
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Neurogastroenterology &Motility, Volume 37, Issue 9, September 2025.Spastic and hypercontractile esophageal motor disorders can cause retrosternal pain and/or dysphagia but may be missed by short‐term high resolution manometry (HRM). 24‐h‐HRM detected considerable circadian variability of esophageal contractility and markedly increased the percentage of patients diagnosed with a major motor disorder.
Jutta Keller +6 more
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