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ArticleMiddle East journal of digestive diseases2023

Efficacy and Safety of Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) in Achalasia: An Updated Meta-analysis.

Afshin Khaiser, Muhammad Baig, David Forcione, Matthew Bechtold, Srinivas R Puli

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Article in Middle East journal of digestive diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Achalasia management with per-oral endoscopic myotomy: A study of clinical success and complications at a tertiary center in Saudi Arabia.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2026
    Article
  3. Prevention, detection and management of adverse events of third-space endoscopy.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2024
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Afshin KhaiserDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, USA.
Muhammad BaigDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, USA.
David ForcioneDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
Matthew BechtoldDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA.
Srinivas R PuliDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, USA.
Illinois College · USBoca Raton Regional Hospital · USUniversity of Missouri · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AchalasiaDysphagiaPeroral endoscopic myotomy

Identifiers

PMID38523886
PMCPMC10955992
OpenAlexW4391280571

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Registered trials

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