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Record W4410813906 · doi:10.1159/000546490

Endoscopic Treatment of Achalasia

2025· review· en· W4410813906 on OpenAlex
Gonzalo Latorre, Robert Bechara

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueDigestion · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGastroesophageal reflux and treatments
Canadian institutionsKingston Health Sciences CentreKingston General HospitalQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAchalasiaMyotomyEsophageal motility disorderGERDMedicineBotulinum toxinHeller myotomyIntensive care medicineEsophagusSurgeryDiseaseRefluxInternal medicine

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Achalasia is the most common major esophageal motility disorder, characterized by impaired lower esophageal sphincter relaxation and absent or ineffective peristalsis. Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), pneumatic dilation, and botulinum toxin injection are the main endoscopic therapies available. This review highlights recent advances, technical variations, and updated evidence on the efficacy and safety of POEM. SUMMARY: POEM has emerged as a highly effective and minimally invasive treatment for achalasia, with randomized controlled trials demonstrating excellent long-term clinical success and durability. Its safety profile and capacity for a tailored myotomy offer distinct advantages over alternative therapies. However, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) remains a key concern. Ongoing efforts are focused on optimizing procedural techniques, including myotomy length and orientation, sling fiber preservation, and the addition of fundoplication. Additionally, training protocols, patient selection criteria, and strategies to prevent and predict GERD are critical areas of development. Future research should aim to refine follow-up strategies and define objective measures of success to enhance the safety, efficacy, and accessibility of POEM. KEY MESSAGES: Endoscopic treatments of achalasia, particularly POEM, offer effective and durable outcomes. Optimizing technique, refining training, and managing GERD are essential for improving safety and long-term success.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.988
Threshold uncertainty score0.649

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.385
Teacher spread0.338 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it