Poster Session E - Tuesday Afternoon
Category: Esophagus
Jason Nasser, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
Characteristic | POEM | LHM | p-value |
TOTAL | |||
Number of refluxes /24h | 40.0 | 15.4 | < 0.001 |
Percent time in reflux | 9.3% | 3.2% | < 0.001 |
Number of long refluxes /24h | 4.0 | 1.7 | < 0.001 |
Average of longest reflux (mins) | 45.7 | 19.0 | < 0.001 |
UPRIGHT | |||
Number of refluxes /1h | 1.8 | 0.6 | < 0.001 |
Percent time in reflux | 7.8% | 2.6% | < 0.001 |
Number of long refluxes /1h | 0.18 | 0.06 | < 0.001 |
Average of longest reflux (minutes) | 19.0 | 9.9 | < 0.001 |
SUPINE | |||
Number of refluxes /24h | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.003 |
Percent time in reflux | 10.1% | 3.5% | < 0.001 |
Number of long refluxes /1h | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.001 |
Average of longest reflux (minutes) | 35.8 | 12.4 | < 0.001 |
OVERALL | |||
DeMeester Score | 37.2 | 13.2 | < 0.001 |
% Time reflux in supine/upright >1 | 41.1% | 21.7% | 0.007 |