For years, Akia McDowell had been told she had gastroesophageal reflux disease, a common – yet unpleasant – digestive disorder in which stomach acid backs up into the esophagus. Then, one day in early ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A very simple act that we do day in and day out to stay alive was literally choking one Northeast Philadelphia woman. But she says a procedure done at Temple Health changed her ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A second endoscope was useful for ensuring a complete gastric myotomy during peroral endoscopic myotomy, or POEM ...

A new minimally-invasive procedure called Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) will help people with "jackhammer esophagus," a condition that occurs when they esophagus doesn't open properly making it ...

Sponsored FOY G-POEM Procedure Helps Patients Eat Foods They Love Sunil Amin, M.D., a gastroenterologist at UHealth, the University of Miami Health System, explains what gastroparesis is and how a ...

Imagine if you felt like you were going to choke every time you ate food or drank liquid? That's what people with a condition called achalasia have to deal with daily. Now there's a simple procedure ...

Pneumatic dilation and laparoscopic Heller’s myotomy (LHM) are established treatments for idiopathic achalasia. Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a less invasive therapy with promising early study ...

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a novel endoscopic procedure initially developed for achalasia, combining the performance of surgical myotomy with safety profile of an endoscopic procedure POEM ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In looking at esophageal myotomies from 2012 to 2016, Zihni and colleagues identified 261 patients who were ...

COOPERSBURG, PA. (WPVI) -- Most of us look forward to meals. Every year, thousands of people develop an unusual condition that can take the joy out of eating. For 30 years, Jack Svoboda had problems ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Imagine if you felt like you were going to choke every time you ate food or drank liquid? That's what people with a condition called achalasia have to deal with daily. Now ...