Sublingual Nitroglycerine Spray Facilitates Efficient Submucosal Tunneling during Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy—A Nonrandomized Trial

Introduction In the last one decade, per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has been found to be an effective minimally invasive approach for the treatment of esophageal achalasia cardia and was lately shown to be noninferior to laparoscopic Heller's myotomy in a randomized controlled tr...

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Main Authors: Kapil Sharma, Mamta Sharma, Faisal Rasheed, Bilal Wani, Vasudha Goel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Series:Journal of Digestive Endoscopy
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0044-1782496
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Summary:Introduction In the last one decade, per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has been found to be an effective minimally invasive approach for the treatment of esophageal achalasia cardia and was lately shown to be noninferior to laparoscopic Heller's myotomy in a randomized controlled trial.
ISSN:0976-5042
0976-5050