Not All Patients With Non-erosive Reflux Disease Share Psychological Distress as Main Mechanism of Disease
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Not All Patients With Non-erosive Reflux Disease Share Psychological Distress as Main Mechanism of Disease
TO THE EDITOR: We read with interest the study by Nam et al, who evaluated the association between irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and concluded that IBS is strongly linked to non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) and not with erosive esophagitis. The authors stated that the association between IBS and NERD is due to the fact that both disorders share psych...
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TO THE EDITOR: I appreciate the interest and comments on our paper, which was published in October 2013 issue of this journal. As you have commented, non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) is known as heterogeneous group from pathophysiological aspect. In our paper, NERD is defined as patients with typical symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) such as heartburn or acid regurgitation wit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2093-0879,2093-0887
DOI: 10.5056/jnm.2014.20.1.129