Table 3. SF-36 domain scores before and after POEM.
| Study | Time | Physical function | Role physical |
Bodily pain |
General health | Social functioning |
Vitality | Role emotional |
Mental health | Compliance |
| Li et al.10) | Preoperative | 85 (75–90) | 100 (50–100) | 68 (52–100) | 52 (35–77) | 100 (67–100) | 80 (50–80) | 100 (67–100) | 80 (72–88) | – |
| Post 1 month |
90 (85–90) | 100 (81–100) | 84 (72–100) | 77 (57–77) | 100 (78–100) | 85 (80–85) | 100 (100–100) | 84 (80–88) | ||
| Post 6 months |
90 (85–90) | 100 (100–100) | 92 (84–100) | 87 (72–97) | 100 (100–100) | 85 (80–85) | 100 (100–100) | 84 (80–84) | ||
| Liu et al.11) | Preoperative | 93.29 ± 9.54 | 72.86 ± 40.39 | 69.45 ± 25.21 | 50.29 ± 19.56 | 81.90 ± 23.97 | 71.14 ± 16.14 | 67.62 ± 40.00 | 74.86 ± 15.02 | – |
| Post 1 month |
98.14 ± 5.16 | 87.14 ± 32.86 | 86.74 ± 18.04 | 73.83 ± 15.73 | 93.33 ± 14.05 | 83.57 ± 8.88 | 93.33 ± 23.98 | 83.20 ± 8.50 | ||
| Post 6 months |
99.16 ± 2.45 | 92.50 ± 23.6 | 96.00 ± 8.66 | 86.97 ± 13.89 | 98.15 ± 6.08 | 83.00 ± 3.56 | 96.76 ± 16.86 | 82.67 ± 4.15 | ||
| Vigneswaran et al.12) | Preoperative | 85 (55–100) | 69 (50–100) | 73 (45–100) | 70 (55–83) | 75 (50–100) | 56 (44–75) | 83 (42–100) | 69 (50–88) | 37/37 (100%) |
| Post 3 weeks |
89 (55–100) | 88 (63–100) | 90 (68–100) | 75 (60–85) | 88 (50–100) | 63 (50–81) | 100 (67–100) | 78 (69–94) | 30/37 (81%) | |
| Post 6 months |
71.4 (50–100) | 94 (50–100) | 79 (68–100) | 75 (65–85) | 88 (63–100) | 63 (50–75) | 100 (58–100) | 88 (75–88) | 26/37 (70%) | |
| Post 12 months |
95 (50–100) | 100 (63–100) | 85 (45–100) | 75 (60–85) | 88 (75–100) | 63 (56–75) | 92 (67–100) | 81 (63–88) | 19/37 (51%) | |
| Peng et al.16) | Preoperative | 81.3 ± 12.1 | 75.0 ± 18.5 | 76.8 ± 13.7 | 73.8 ± 8.8 | 72.0 ± 19.3 | 63.3 ± 8.6 | 67 (67–100) | 70.3 ± 8.6 | 13/13 (100%) |
| Last Follow-up |
83.8 ± 10.7 | 87.5 ± 13.1 | 77.7 ± 13.0 | 76.2 ± 7.0 | 81.5 ± 14.5 | 64.6 ± 9.2 | 67 (67–100) | 77.0 ± 8.0 | 13/13 (100%) | |
| Ward et al.17) | Preoperative | 75.4 | 65.9 | 67.3 | 66.1 | 64.6 | 54.9 | 69.2 | 67.3 | 41/41 (100%) |
| Post 12 months |
70.8 | 81.8 | 76.9 | 70.7 | 83 | 60.7 | 78.8 | 71.3 | 41/41 (100%) | |
| Perbtani et al.18) |
Preoperative | 62 ± 2.6 | 44.5 ± 3.8 | 59.5 ± 2.3 | 56.6 ± 2 | 67 ± 2.5 | 43.4 ± 2 | 66.5 ± 3.6 | 68.3 ± 1.9 | 143/143 (100%) |
| Post 1 month |
69.9 ± 1.8 | 61.3 ± 4.1 | 70 ± 2.2 | 65.3 ± 1.6 | 76.7 ± 2.6 | 53.2 ± 1.9 | 78.5 ± 3.6 | 76.4 ± 1.7 | 117/143 (82%) | |
| Post 6 months |
72.2 ± 2.4 | 69.9 ± 5.4 | 69.6 ± 2.8 | 63.2 ± 2.1 | 82.4 ± 3.3 | 56.4 ± 2.6 | 76.5 ± 4.9 | 75 ± 2.2 | 65/143 (45%) | |
| Post 12 months |
68 ± 3.2 | 58.7 ± 7.3 | 66.5 ± 3.5 | 61.3 ± 2.5 | 78.8 ± 4.3 | 54.4 ± 3.5 | 76 ± 6.8 | 75.5 ± 3 | 41/143 (29%) |
POEM: peroral endoscopic myotomy; SF-36: 36-item Health Survey