# A Randomized Comparison of Laparoscopic Myotomy and Pneumatic Dilatation for Achalasia

> **NCT00188344** · NA · UNKNOWN · sponsor: **University Health Network, Toronto** · enrollment: 56 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Esophageal Achalasia

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** pneumatic dilatation
- **PROCEDURE:** laparoscopic myotomy with partial fundoplication

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00188344
- **Lead sponsor:** University Health Network, Toronto
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** UNKNOWN
- **Start date:** 2005-09
- **Primary completion:** 2011-03
- **Final completion:** 2015-03
- **Target enrollment:** 56 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2014-05-21

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00188344

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00188344, "A Randomized Comparison of Laparoscopic Myotomy and Pneumatic Dilatation for Achalasia". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-08-11 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00188344. Licensed CC0.

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