Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a new endoscopic treatment for achalasia with very good short-term results in adults. Data about POEM in pediatric patients are missing. We present the case of a 10-year-old male patient with type I (classic) achalasia, successfully treated with POEM. The procedure was accomplished in a similar fashion to the technique used in adults. Short-term results were...

In the present article I offer a sketch of Gandharan Buddhism in the centuries around the turn of the common era by looking at various kinds of evidence which speak to us across the centuries. In doing so I hope to shed a little light on an important stage in the transmission of Buddhism as it spread from India, through Gandhara and Central Asia to China, Korea, and ultimately Japan. In particu...

Abstract Since c. 2008 many special collections libraries have allowed researchers to take photographs of medieval manuscripts: this article calls such self-service photography ‘DIY digitization’. The considers some possible effects digital tool for research on book history, especially palaeography, comparing it in particular the institutionally-led digitization. digitization’ does assist with ...

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a minimally invasive procedure for treating esophageal achalasia. During POEM, carbon dioxide is insufflated under pressure into the esophagus and stomach, which can cause clinically significant capnoperitoneum, capnomediastinum, or capnothorax. We present a case in which gas accumulation in the abdomen during POEM had adverse effects on ventilation. Once th...

BACKGROUND Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) as a new approach to achalasia attracts broad attention. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the results with esophageal motility after POEM through the first large sample clinical research. PATIENTS AND METHODS We have a self-control research with all patients (205 in total) who underwent POEM from 2010 to 2014 at our Digestive End...

ham, sent for Ashmole and asked him to cure his rheumatism (pp. 250 and 1711). Ashmole seeing that he was at death's door declined to do so. For two things Ashmole's name will be mainly remembered. In 1682 he founded the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, based on his own collections of manuscripts, books, coins and specimens, which are now housed in the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford. He ...

The relationship between text and image in later medieval art is complex has a growing literature. Wall paintings two churches South Wales suggest ways which could inspire sophisticated programmes of paintings. At Llandeilo Talybont, sequence telling the story Crucifixion through Instruments Passion relates to devotions readings from Holy Week liturgy. Llancarfan, satirical poem on fashionable ...

The article concerns the manuscript books from collection of Józef Wandalin Mniszech (1670–1747), Grand Marshall Crown in years 1713–1742, and Cracow castellan 1742. It was one largest collections that kind, developed Saxion times by a State dignitary; it amounted to approximately 50–60 manuscripts. studies, mostly autopsy, are concluded with statement core consisted manuscripts concerning curr...

We aimed to assess the short-term outcomes of per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) compared with laparoscopic Heller myotomy (LHM) for achalasia through a meta-analysis of nonrandomized comparative studies.We searched PubMed, Embase, Medline, Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar for studies that compared POEM and LHM for achalasia and were published between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2014. ...