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. 2020 Nov 20;53(6):638–645. doi: 10.5946/ce.2020.223

Table 4.

Clinical Outcomes of Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy for Achalasia and Non-Achalasia Esophageal Motility Disorders

Study Type of motility disorder Patient (n) Clinical responses (%) Mean follow-up (mo) Major complication (%)
Li et al. (2013) [32] Achalasia 238 95.0 8.5 0
Cai et al. (2014) [33] Achalasia 100 96.5 11.5 0
Stavropoulos et al. (2013) [13] Achalasia 100 97.0 13.3 0
Ramchandani et al. (2016) [29] Achalasia 220 92.0 13.4 0
Chen et al. (2015) [34] Achalasia (pediatric) 27 100.0 24.6 0
Inoue et al. (2015) [35] Achalasia 500 91.0 36.0 3.2
DES 9 100.0
Li et al. (2018) [36] Achalasia 564 87.1 49.0 6.4
Teitelbaum et al. (2018) [37] Achalasia (type I) 8 88.0 65.0 4.7
Achalasia (type II) 15 80.0
EGJOO 5 60.0
DES 1 100.0
Werner et al. (2019) [38] Achalasia 112 83.0 24.0 2.7
Brewer Gutierrez et al. (2020) [39] Achalasiaa) 146 95.2 55.0 5.5b)
Shiwaku et al. (2020) [40] Achalasiaa) 1,346 94.7 12.0 0
Khashab et al. (2015) [16] Achalasia (type III) 54 96.3 7.8 7.4b)
DES 9 100.0 22.2b)
JHE 10 70.0 20.0b)
Sharata et al. (2015) [28] Achalasiaa) 75 97.8 16 6.0b)
DES, NE, isolated hypertensive non-relaxing LES 25 70.8
Khan et al. (2017) [41] Achalasiaa) (type III) 116 92.0 3–36 11.0b)
JHE 37 72.0 16.0b)
DES 18 88.0 14.0b)
Khashab et al. (2018) [17] DES, JHE 35 84.9 9.1 20.0b)
EGJOO 15 93.3 6.5 13.3b)
Filicori et al. (2019) [42] DES 11 91.0 48.0 10.0b)
EGJOO 14
Hypercontractile esophagus 15
Bernardot et al. (2020) [43] NAEMD (JHE, SED, EGJOO) 30 63.2 6 26.7b)
Achalasia (type I, II) 30 95.5 20.0b)
Achalasia (type III) 30 87.0 33.4b)

DES, diffuse esophageal spasm; EGJOO, esophagogastric junction outflow obstruction; JHE, jackhammer esophagus; LES, lower esophageal sphincter; NAEMD, non-achalasia esophageal motility disorder; NE, nutcracker esophagus; SED, spastic esophageal disorder.

a)

Previous failed treatment was included.

b)

Minor complication rate was included.