BACKGROUND People with proven gastroesophageal reflux disease may also experience symptoms such as voice loss, chronic cough, globus, and sore throat. These laryngopharyngeal reflux symptoms have been reported to respond to prolonged proton pump inhibitor therapy, but the Hill approach to resolving these specific individual symptoms has not been widely reported in surgical literature. METHODS...

There is a growing evidence that gastroesophageal reflux disease is related to several upper gastrointestinal cancers, mainly the esophageal adenocarcinoma and a certain type of gastric cardia adenocarcinoma. Currently, the incidence of gastroesophageal reflux disease is rapidly increasing in Korea. Therefore, there is a possibility of such increasing cancerous incidents, similar to the western...

OBJECTIVES This study aims at verifying the prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux in asthmatic children, and at determining the sensitivity and specificity of the reflux index for the diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease. METHODS Sixty-nine children, aged 1-5 years, with asthma, were studied by 24-hour pH monitoring. The patients were randomly selected. RESULTS Ages varied from 12.4...

BACKGROUND Gastroesophageal reflux is common among patients with asthma but often causes mild or no symptoms. It is not known whether treatment of gastroesophageal reflux with proton-pump inhibitors in patients who have poorly controlled asthma without symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux can substantially improve asthma control. METHODS In a parallel-group, double-blind trial, we randomly ass...

updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease

Background: Gastroesophageal reflux is a common problem in children, and (Gastroesophageal reflux disease) GERD comprises its objective pathologic sequelae, but the term has also been used more recently to denote symptoms affecting quality of life. The Clinical presentation is very variable. It causes mortality and morbidity without appropriate treatment plan. Objective: We are going to evaluat...

introduction: gastroesophageal reflux (ger) is the most common esophageal disorder, which occurs at all ages. ger is defined as the passage of gastric contents into the esophagus. ger disease (gerd), which is a long-term complication, is a common pediatric problem. clinical manifestations of gerd in infants include regurgitation, irritability, choking, gagging, vomiting, poor weight gain, and r...

Gastroesophageal reflux induced cough is a common cause of chronic cough, and proton pump inhibitors are a standard therapy. However, the patients unresponsive to the standard therapy are difficult to treat and remain a challenge to doctors. Here, we summarized the experience of successful resolution of refractory chronic cough due to gastroesophageal reflux with baclofen in three patients. It ...

Gastroesophageal varices are a common complication of cirrhosis and are present in approximately 50% of patients with cirrhosis.[1] Acute gastroesophageal variceal hemorrhage is a severe complication of cirrhosis or portal hypertension associated with high mortality.[1‐3] Although mortality of gastroesophageal variceal hemorrhage has decreased in the past three decades, it remains the most comm...

background: reflux disease is a common gastrointestinal problem. the association between reflux disease and gastritis pattern is controversial. aim : to determine the association between reflux disease and gastritis pattern in patients with helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection. methods: 470 patients with dyspepsia and reflux disease were enrolled in this study. the inclusion criteria were ...