Graphs: Re: Heller Myotomy vs Dilation

[Guest guest]

I forgot that I wanted to include these graphs in that other post.

Estimated probability of staying in remission

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1774039/figure/f4/

Time to become symptomatic by patient age

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1774039/figure/f3/

Time to become symptomatic after the first dilatation

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1774039/figure/f1/

Time to become symptomatic after the first, second, and third dilatation

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1774039/figure/f2/

Those were about dilatations done many years ago with a Browne-McHardy

dilator which is not used today. It is hard to say how it compares to

todays methods. One of the interesting things here is that in the last

figure 2 if a first dilatation failed the second also seemed to fail

soon but the third lasted longer.

notan