Satoshi Urakami1, Hirofumi Abe1, Shinwa Tanaka1, Fumiaki Kawara2, Takashi Toyonaga3, Ryusuke Ariyoshi1, Tomoya Sako1, Nobuaki Ikezawa1, Chise Ueda1, Yuzo Kodama1. 1. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo. 2. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo; Division of Gastroenterology, Konan Hospital. 1-5-16, Kamokogahara, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo. 3. Division of Endoscopic Medicine, Kobe University Hospital, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is an effective treatment for esophageal motility disorder. However, some people are poor responders who will probably need retreatments, such as endoscopic pneumatic dilation or re-POEM, and a scoring system for the prediction of poor responders preoperatively has not yet been established. We aimed to develop and validate a preoperative scoring system for predicting poor responders. METHODS: Overall, 244 patients who underwent POEM for esophageal motility disorders in our hospital from April 2015 to March 2019 were retrospectively included in this study. Poor responders were defined as patients with any of following: (1) Eckardt score ≥3 at 1-year follow-up, (2) endoscopic findings of food retention at 1-year follow-up, and (3) retreatments within 1 year after POEM. A risk-scoring system for poor responders was developed based on multiple logistic regression analysis, and its performance was internally validated using bootstrapping. RESULTS: Forty patients were diagnosed as poor responders at the 1-year follow-up. In the multivariate study, points for risk scores were assigned for 4 independent risk factors as follows: pretreatment Eckardt score (1-point increments), previous treatments (4 points), sigmoid-type esophagus (4 points), and esophageal dilation grade ≥II (4 points). The scoring system could predict an estimated risk for poor responders and provided satisfactory discrimination (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 0.78; 95% confidence interval, 0.68-0.88) and calibration (slope = 0.93; 95% confidence interval, 0.62-1.31). CONCLUSIONS: A validated risk-scoring system for predicting poor responders preoperatively was established; this system could be useful for selecting treatment strategies and postoperative surveillance.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is an effective treatment for esophageal motility disorder. However, some people are poor responders who will probably need retreatments, such as endoscopic pneumatic dilation or re-POEM, and a scoring system for the prediction of poor responders preoperatively has not yet been established. We aimed to develop and validate a preoperative scoring system for predicting poor responders. METHODS: Overall, 244 patients who underwent POEM for esophageal motility disorders in our hospital from April 2015 to March 2019 were retrospectively included in this study. Poor responders were defined as patients with any of following: (1) Eckardt score ≥3 at 1-year follow-up, (2) endoscopic findings of food retention at 1-year follow-up, and (3) retreatments within 1 year after POEM. A risk-scoring system for poor responders was developed based on multiple logistic regression analysis, and its performance was internally validated using bootstrapping. RESULTS: Forty patients were diagnosed as poor responders at the 1-year follow-up. In the multivariate study, points for risk scores were assigned for 4 independent risk factors as follows: pretreatment Eckardt score (1-point increments), previous treatments (4 points), sigmoid-type esophagus (4 points), and esophageal dilation grade ≥II (4 points). The scoring system could predict an estimated risk for poor responders and provided satisfactory discrimination (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 0.78; 95% confidence interval, 0.68-0.88) and calibration (slope = 0.93; 95% confidence interval, 0.62-1.31). CONCLUSIONS: A validated risk-scoring system for predicting poor responders preoperatively was established; this system could be useful for selecting treatment strategies and postoperative surveillance.