UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to use gastroesophageal and pulmonary scintigraphy to evaluate the prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux and airway involvement among patients with posterior laryngitis. METHODS The study included a total of 201 patients (131 females, 70 males; age range, 15-77 y; mean age +/- SD, 49 +/- 16 y). All patients had posterior laryngitis documented by laryngosco...

OBJECTIVE: To discuss clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of gastroesophageal reflux. METHOD: We accomplished a literature review of the last 30 years, by means of Lilacs and Medline databases. RESULTS: The gastroesophageal reflux is one of the most frequent causes of medical appointments with pediatric gastroenterologists. It represents a benign condition, characterized by regurgitati...

(or the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux) and outcomes in IPF. Patients taking oral antiacid therapy appear to have a slower rate of decline in lung function [5] and improved survival [6] . In addition, there is evidence suggesting that gastroesophageal reflux may be an important cause of acute exacerbation [5, 7–8] . Both acid and nonacid reflux might play an important role, and in this re...

CONTEXT Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is a major cause of laryngeal inflammation and presents with a constellation of symptoms different from classic gastroesophageal reflux disease. OBJECTIVE To provide a practical approach to evaluating and managing cases of LPR. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION The PubMed database and the Ovid Database of Systematic Reviews were systematically searched for laryngop...

background and objectives: gastroesophageal reflux is a common chronic disease that impairs individuals’ quality of life, wherein patients should receive prolonged, and sometimes lifelong, treatment with chemical drugs, that in addition to high costs they can lead to side effects in the long term .hawthorn fruit is one of the drugs used in traditional medicine to relieve reflux symptoms and to ...

objective(s): gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) is one of the most common digestive disorders that frequently lead to pulmonary complications due to gastric fluid aspiration. in the present experimental study, chronic aspiration of gastric fluid, its components and bile salts in rat lung was performed to find out the main factor(s) causing pulmonary complications of gastric fluid aspiratio...

introduction and aim: gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) and irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) are important diseases, which are increasing in frequency and capable of impairing the quality of life to the same extent or even more than severe organic gastrointestinal diseases. these disorders have a significant burden on the health care system. the aim of this study was to determine the prevale...

conclusions it can be concluded that mets may increase the risk of gerd. consequently, there might be potential benefits to treating the metabolic abnormalities in these patients. context the incidences of both gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) and metabolic syndrome (mets) have increased in recent years, and it has been suggested that there is a probable association between the two. the a...