CONTEXT Barrett's esophagus is a common pathological condition in patients with gastro-esophageal reflux disease. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare endoscopic diagnosis versus histological confirmation. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Cancer Institute of the Imam Khomeini Hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 50 patients with a history of gastro-esophageal reflux were r...

BACKGROUND A link between gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and coronary heart disease has been suggested. AIM To estimate the incidence of myocardial infarction in patients with newly diagnosed gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in comparison with that in the general population. METHODS A population-based cohort study was performed in the UK. Patients aged 18-79 years with a first diagnosis...

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and esophageal adenocarcinoma are cancers of high mortality. EAC develops through Barrett's esophagus (BE) and columnar dysplasia, preceded by gastro-esophageal reflux disease. The risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is increased by smoking and alcohol consumption. New treatment options for esophageal cancer are desperately needed. Toll-like receptors (...

Purpose. To summarize the estimates of effect use potassium-competitive proton pump inhibitors in pharmacotherapy algorithms for patients with peptic ulcer disease, GERD on treatment outcomes. Material and methods. The most large-scale (as a rule) publications last five years devoted to problem under consideration are analyzed. search was carried out by keywords Pubmed information database (ncb...

About 40% of the population will experience chronic cough at some point during their lives and it tends to be more common in women (Thorax 58:901-7, 2003). Post-nasal drip (or upper airway cough syndrome), gastro-esophageal reflux disease and asthma are considered the most common causes. Yet only a small percentage of patients with these common conditions experience chronic cough. Also there is...

herein, we report on a 24-year-old woman with a large well- marginated gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (malt) lymphoma. she presented with dysphagia and epigastric pain. in esophago­gastro­duodeno­scopy there was a huge bulging submucosal mass with normal appearing mucosa in the cardia in addition to a grade b gastro-esophageal reflux disease. she was treated with a proton pump inhibi...

Helicobacter pylori infects about 50% of the world's population and inevitably results in the development of gastritis. Of those infected, about 10% develop peptic ulcer disease and roughly 1% develop gastric cancer. Conversely, some take the view that H. pylori infection provides some protection against gastro-esophageal reflux disease and possibly asthma. This review aims to explore the case ...

The incidence of Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease in the population of industrialized countries is high and ranges from 20 t! o 40% in the age groups between 45-64 years with a further increase in the incidence in the age between 6474. The natural history of the disease requires continuous recrudescence alternated with quiescent phases. In view of these epidemiological data it is clear the impo...