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A member asked:
How successful is a laparoscopic myotomy and fundoplication for achalasia ?
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Very: If you truly have achalasia a laparoscopic myotomy can provide improvement in your symptoms almost instantly. The long term satisfaction from the surgery is also very good.
Answered 7/18/2013
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Very: Laparoscopic myotomy and anterior or dor fundoplication is the most common surgical procedure, and has 85-95% success rate at 5 years. There are some centers in the us that perform myotomy without abdominal incisions via an endoscopic approach called per oral endoscopic myotomy (poem).
Answered 11/18/2012
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