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. 2020 Mar 4;26(3):113–124. doi: 10.5761/atcs.ra.19-00273

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