POEM Procedure at Stanford Allows 90-Year-Old to Eat and Drink Again

At 90, Marjorie McFadden found herself unable to swallow. At Stanford Hospital & Clinics, she found innovative care that restored her ability to enjoy food again. Stanford digestive surgeon, Homero Rivas, MD, performed a per oral endoscopic myotomy, or POEM, to correct McFadden's achalasia, an unusual tightening of the muscles at the lower end of the esophagus.
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[@andreascool3041]

I just don't understand how these people and at this age say that they are back to normal and happy, and when I watch other videos of younger people had the same surgery say that surgery didn't do much to them, I need a god dam explanation to this?!

[@carenclemmons5002]

I hear ya. Me too.

[@AmbiPrettyBiznezSkincare]

I live with this. I do my Poem on 4/6/2021

[@shanicemenye7289]

i got the surgery in august it helped alot but my throat still closes sometime so i get mines next week

[@zuvairiyarizwan8549]

I am 36 years old, i also suffer from achalasia can you give me any help for me for my treatment

[@zuvairiyarizwan8549]

I am also suffer from achalasia

[@hildagaytan5067]

My name is hilda Are used to eating I have a chalasia type to

[@KJ-xc6qs]

what about gerd?

[@williamswanfeld8950]

They would have to sew up part of the LES ,the percedure is called TIF

[@carenclemmons5002]

Yeh, that’s the next problem.