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    A Measure of Disease-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life for Achalasia

    November 11, 2015

    This study (PTH-152 Heller’s myotomy and pneumatic dilatation in the treatment of achalasia: a population-based case-control study assessing long-term quality of life)mentions something called the Achalasia Severity Questionnaire [ASQ]. 

     

    The paper entitiled A Meas...

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    PTH-152 Heller’s myotomy and pneumatic dilatation in the treatment of achalasia: a population-based case-control study assessing long-term quality of life

    November 11, 2015

    PTH-152 Heller’s myotomy and pneumatic dilatation in the treatment of achalasia: a population-based case-control study assessing long-term quality of life

     

    120 Achalasia patients were studied.

     

    Read the conclusion carefully:

     

    "Despite treatment, achalasia patients have si...

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    Histopathologic patterns among achalasia subtypes

    November 11, 2015

    Histopathologic patterns among achalasia subtypes

     

    Biopsies were taken from 46 myotomy patients: 20 type 1, 20 type 2, 3 type 3 and 3 EGJ obstruction.

       

    The study suggests that Type 1 is a progression from type 2.

     

    "On histopathology, complete ganglion cell loss occ...

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    Vitamin D and Autoimmunity

    May 24, 2016

    Presentation, Diagnosis, and Management of Achalasia

    January 24, 2016

    Outcomes of Esophageal Dilation in Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Safety, Efficacy, and Persistence of the Fibrostenotic Phenotype.

    January 20, 2016

    A Measure of Disease-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life for Achalasia

    November 11, 2015

    PTH-152 Heller’s myotomy and pneumatic dilatation in the treatment of achalasia: a population-based case-control study assessing long-term quality of...

    November 11, 2015

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    November 11, 2015

    The POEM papers keep coming....

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