ALLMedicine™ Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Center

Jul 7th, 2021 - S.J., a 68-year-old Black man, comes to your office to establish care after recently moving to the area. S.J. has a history of allergic rhinitis, osteoarthritis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Additionally, he has a 39-pack-year history of s...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - To provide an overview of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and summarize their role in assessing undifferentiated dysphagia and common esophageal disorders, including achalasia, eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), and gastroesophageal reflux ...

Nov 30th, 2021 - The typical non-muscle complications of long-surviving X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) include scoliosis, head deformity, macrocephaly, gastroesophageal reflux disease and peliosis hepatis. Recently, pulmonary blebs and recurrent pneumothorax...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) continues to be among the most common diseases seen by gastroenterologists, surgeons, and primary care physicians. Our understanding of the varied presentations of GERD, enhancements in diagnostic testing, an...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common clinical disease associated with upper gastrointestinal motility disorders. Recently, with improvements in living standards and changes in lifestyle and dietary habits, the incidence of GERD has b...

Jul 7th, 2021 - S.J., a 68-year-old Black man, comes to your office to establish care after recently moving to the area. S.J. has a history of allergic rhinitis, osteoarthritis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Additionally, he has a 39-pack-year history of s...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Chronic cough is defined by a duration lasting at least 8 weeks. The most common causes of chronic cough include smoking-related lung disease, upper airway cough syndrome, asthma, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and nonasthmatic eosinophilic bron...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Epigastric pain can have multiple etiologies including myocardial infarction, pancreatitis, acute aortic syndromes, gastroesophageal reflux disease, esophagitis, peptic ulcer disease, gastritis, duodenal ulcer disease, gastric cancer, and hiatal h...

Aug 10th, 2020 - Esophageal symptoms are common and may indicate the presence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), structural processes, motor dysfunction, behavioral conditions, or functional disorders. Esophageal physiologic tests are often performed when ...

Aug 10th, 2020 - Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are widely used for acid suppression in the treatment and prevention of many conditions, including gastroesophageal reflux disease, gastric and duodenal ulcers, erosive esophagitis, Helicobacter pylori infection, and ...

Jul 7th, 2021 - S.J., a 68-year-old Black man, comes to your office to establish care after recently moving to the area. S.J. has a history of allergic rhinitis, osteoarthritis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Additionally, he has a 39-pack-year history of s...

Nov 8th, 2021 - The primary objectives of this study are to assess the efficacy of vonoprazan (10 mg, 20 mg, and 40 mg On-Demand) compared to placebo (On-Demand) in relief of episodic heartburn over 6 weeks in participants with symptomatic non-erosive gastroesoph...

Oct 28th, 2021 - Rationale: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common disease caused by a dysfunctional lower esophageal sphincter and an abnormal esophageal hiatus or hiatal hernia. Approximately 30% of large hiatal hernias will recur after surgery, in p...

Oct 22nd, 2021 - Benign esophageal strictures are a frequently encountered problem in the clinical practice of gastroenterology. The formation of benign strictures of the esophagus is believed to be caused by the production of fibrous tissue and deposition of coll...

Oct 22nd, 2021 - The goal of the proposed research is to evaluate the endoscopic esophageal functional luminal imaging probe (FLIP) with topography (Endoflip® 2.0, Medtronic, USA) as a pre-operative diagnostic test to rule out significant esophageal dysmotility in...

Jul 7th, 2021 - S.J., a 68-year-old Black man, comes to your office to establish care after recently moving to the area. S.J. has a history of allergic rhinitis, osteoarthritis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Additionally, he has a 39-pack-year history of s...

Nov 8th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For patients who fail to lose enough weight or regain weight after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), revisional bariatric surgery in the form of transit bipartition is an attractive next step, say clinicians in Ger...

Oct 12th, 2021 - Combinations of abnormal pH-impedance metrics better predicted nonresponse to proton pump inhibitor therapy, as well as benefit of treatment escalation, than individual metrics in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) on twice-daily.

Sep 13th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - People with obesity who undergo bariatric surgery have a higher risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with sleeve gastrectomy than with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, a randomized controlled trial found. Researchers randomiz...

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