Peroral endoscopic myotomy versus Heller's myotomy for achalasia hospitalizations in the United States: what does the future hold?

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Dushyant Singh Dahiya (Department of Internal Medicine, Central Michigan University College of Medicine) ;
Vinay Jahagirdar (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine) ;
Manesh Kumar Gangwani (Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Toledo Medical Center) ;
Muhammad Aziz (Department of Gastroenterology, The University of Toledo Medical Center) ;
Chin-I Cheng (Department of Statistics, Actuarial and Data Science, Central Michigan University) ;
Sumant Inamdar (Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) ;
Madhusudhan R. Sanaka (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic Foundation) ;
Mohammad Al-Haddad (Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University School of Medicine)

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