Achalasia refers to the lack of smooth muscle relaxation of the distal esophagus. Although nonsurgical treatments such as pneumatic dilatation of the distal esophagus and botulinum toxin injections have been performed, these procedures have limited duration. Similarly, surgical treatment with Heller myotomy is associated with complications. At our institution, we perform the peroral endoscopic ...

Detection of membrane markers and ultrastructural peroxidase activity was carried out on the blasts of 16 apparently nonmyeloid adult acute leukemias. These patients were selected from 73 adult leukemic patients by the negativity of their routine cytochemical myeloid markers: i.e., myeloperoxidase, chloresterase activity, and Sudan Black B staining. B and T acute lymphoid leukemias (ALL) were e...

Through analysed the breathing physiological characteristics of poetry, we studied human speech breathing patterns during reading. In this paper, we mainly researched the poetry respiratory signal of Tibetan sixcharacter poem and Chinese metrical poem during reading from the perspective of the physiological. Main contents include: 1) Selected 40 representative Tibetan six-character poem s from"...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Type III achalasia is characterized by rapidly propagating pressurization attributable to spastic contractions. Although laparoscopic Heller myotomy (LHM) is the current gold standard management for type III achalasia, peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is conceivably superior because it allows for a longer myotomy. Our aims were to compare the efficacy and safety of PO...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Both peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) and pneumatic dilation (PD) has proved to be effective for treating achalasia in patients aged ≥ 65 years. However little is known about the comparison between POEM and PD. The aim of the study was to compare the safety and efficacy of POEM and PD for the treatment of achalasia in these patients. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the...

BACKGROUND The Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM) has been recommended as the core patient-reported outcome measure for trials of eczema treatments. Using data from the Choice of Moisturiser for Eczema Treatment randomized feasibility study, we assess the responsiveness to change and determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of the POEM in young children with eczema. ME...

Chinese poetry generation is a very challenging task in natural language processing. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage poetry generating method which first plans the sub-topics of the poem according to the user’s writing intent, and then generates each line of the poem sequentially, using a modified recurrent neural network encoder-decoder framework. The proposed planningbased method ...

Microphase separated block copolymers consisting of an amorphous poly~ethylene oxide! ~PEO!-based polymer covalently bound to a second polymer offer a highly attractive avenue to achieving both dimensional stability and high ionic conductivity in polymer electrolytes for solid-state rechargeable lithium batteries. However, due to the strong thermodynamic incompatibility typically found for most...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Achalasia is a rare esophageal motility disorder. Recently, a novel endoscopic technique, peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), was introduced as an alternative treatment for achalasia. We report the results and short term outcomes of POEM for patients with achalasia. METHODS POEM was performed in 13 patients with achalasia. The procedure consisted of creating a submucosal tunnel...

In 1968, in a remark as wise as it is learned, Professor George Clark wrote of The Battle of Maldon that “what the poet does not create does not exist even if history inspires his poem.” Readers of the poem have been mulling this over for forty years. The historical information the poem affords us has been subject, in some degree, to alteration by imagination, to the formulae of verse, and to t...