Abstract:Aims
To compare achalasia treatment outcomes at one and two years post intervention.
Methods
A decision-tree model was populated with data from 36 randomised controlled trials to compare: pneumatic dilation, botulinum toxin injection, Heller myotomy (+/- Dor or Toupet), Dor and peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM).
Freeman-Tukey arcsine square root transformation under random effects model, to account for heter… Show more
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