Learners Favor Esophageal High Resolution Manometry (HRM) Clouse Plots With Better Diagnostic Accuracy Over Conventional Line Tracings

Soudagar, A. Samad; Sayuk, Gregory S.; Gyawali, C. Prakash

doi:10.1016/s0016-5085(11)60934-7

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“…Although some practitioners resisted this evolution, HRM has become 'conventional manometry' and most newly trained gastroenterologists are completely unfamiliar with the line-tracing manometry format of old. HRM has several advantages over conventional manometry: it is easier to perform high-quality studies of uniform format; a single probe position encompasses the entire oesophagus, negating the need to repeatedly reposition it during the study; the data format lends itself to the development of standardized objective measures of peristaltic and sphincter function; the process of interpretation is more intuitive and more easily learned by trainees or new practitioners 5,6 ; and it results in an increased detection of achalasia and other clinically relevant diagnoses among patients with dysphagia 7 . Nonetheless, HRM is still a technique requiring special expertise and training to perform high-quality studies [8][9][10] .…”

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Advances in the management of oesophageal motility disorders in the era of high-resolution manometry: a focus on achalasia syndromes

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Fox

et al. 2017

Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol

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High-resolution manometry (HRM), along with the analysis algorithms characterized in the Chicago Classification (CC) first proposed in 2008, have led to a major restructuring of the classification of oesophageal motility disorders. The inherently quantitative output of HRM devices fuelled enthusiastic expectation among motility experts that these advances would add a level of precision to the diagnosis of oesophageal motility disorders that was not previously possible. Nowhere was this advance more evident than in our concept of achalasia, now differentiated into subtypes as a direct result of HRM. Coincident with the assimilation of HRM into clinical practice was the development of a major therapeutic intervention for the management of oesophageal motility disorders, per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). Not only does the POEM procedure provide a therapeutic option for myotomy with reduced morbidity relative to laparoscopic or open myotomy, but it also enables a calibrated intervention that is customized to patient-specific physiology. Together, these develop ments fostered an increasing emphasis on targeting therapy to specific aspects of oesophageal dysfunction, as measured by physiological testing, rather than discrete diagnoses. Again, nowhere is this evolution more evident than in our strategies for managing achalasia. This Consensus Statement examines the effect of HRM on our current understanding of oesophageal motility disorders with a focus on how this technology has affected the diagnosis, epidemiology and management of achalasia and achalasia-like syndromes. on behalf of the International Working Group for Disorders of Gastrointestinal Motility and FunctionAbstract | High-resolution manometry (HRM) and new analysis algorithms, summarized in the Chicago Classification, have led to a restructured classification of oesophageal motility disorders. This advance has led to increased detection of clinically relevant disorders, in particular achalasia. It has become apparent that the cardinal feature of achalasia -impaired lower oesophageal sphincter (LES) relaxation -can occur in several disease phenotypes: without peristalsis (type I), with pan-oesophageal pressurization (type II), with premature (spastic) distal oesophageal contractions (type III), or with preserved peristalsis (outlet obstruction). Furthermore, no manometric pattern is perfectly sensitive or specific for achalasia caused by a myenteric plexopathy, and there is no biomarker for this pathology. Consequently, physiological testing reveals other syndromes not meeting achalasia criteria that also benefit from therapies formerly reserved for achalasia. These findings have become particularly relevant with the development of a minimally invasive technique for performing a long oesophageal myotomy, the per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). Optimal management is to render treatment in a phenotype-specific manner; that is, POEM calibrated to patient-specific physiology for spastic achalasia and the spastic disorders, and more conservative strategies...

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