Commentary: Peroral endoscopic myotomy, the poetic remedy for type III achalasia

Achalasia, or lack of relaxation, was offhandedly coined by Cooper Perry for his friend Arthur Hertz, who first used the name in 1914.1 Incidentally, that same year, Ernst Heller published his report on esophagocardiomyotomy for cardi-ospasm.2 Ironically, despite being among the most recognized ailments of the foregut, achalasia remains a disease with no identifiable etiology or cure. Pathologically, there

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Achalasia is a foregut disease characterized by lack of identifiable etiology or cure.