Surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago are performing the procedure in a clinical trial. Without this new approach, treating esophageal achalasia surgically involves making at least five incisions in a patient’s abdomen.
The new treatment involves pushing an endoscope through the mouth and down the esophagus, then cutting abnormal muscle fibers that prevent the valve at the base of the esophagus from opening.
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