摘要
There was an enormous increase in reports confirming the safety and efficacy of using peroral endoscopic myotomy(POEM)to treat achalasia since the pioneering of the technique in 2010.[1]However,the reports focused on short to medium-term follow-ups,and data on long-term outcomes of POEM for achalasia were very limited.It still remains unknown whether the satisfactory short-term outcomes are long lasting.Additionally,some achalasia patients receiving POEM noted that they could benefit from post-operative dietary recommendations that would be helpful for symptom remission.Therefore,this study aimed to determine the long-term treatment outcomes of using POEM to treat achalasia,and to assess postoperative Eckardt scores over this period.We also crafted a set of post-POEM dietary recommendations according to the feedback from achalasia patients who underwent this treatment to achieve better symptom remission for post-POEM patients.
