Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Treating Wisely
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Endoscopy for gastroesophageal reflux disease: choose wisely.
In 2012, a healthy, normal-weight, 61-year-old woman presented to my gastroenterology clinic. She requested endoscopy because she was worried about cancer of the esophagus. Four years earlier, her primary care physician had diagnosed gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), prescribed once-daily acid-reduction therapy, and noted complete resolution of symptoms. As a precaution, the primary care ...
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Diagnosis History. If classic symptoms of heartburn and acid regurgitation dominate a patient’s history, then they can help establish the diagnosis of GERD with sufficiently high specificity, although sensitivity remains low compared to 24-hour pH monitoring. The presence of atypical symptoms (Table 1), although common, cannot sufficiently support the clinical diagnosis of GERD [B*]. Testing....
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CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Ching-Liang Lu, MD Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine...
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Gastroesophageal reflux is the involuntary movement of gastric contents to the esophagus. It is a common disease, occurring in one third of the population in the United States. However, reflux is only considered a disease when it causes frequent or severe symptoms or when it produces injury. About 3–7% of the U.S. population suffers from frank esophageal reflux disease. Most reflux disease is n...
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OBJECTIVE To review the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in adults with esophageal complications (esophagitis, stricture, adenocarcinoma, or Barrett metaplasia) or extraesophageal complications (otolaryngological manifestations and asthma). DATA SOURCES Peer-reviewed publications located via MEDLINE or cross-citation. STUDY SELECTION Emphasis was placed on new developmen...
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عنوان ژورنال: North Carolina Medical Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0029-2559
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.77.3.202