ALLMedicine™ Reflux Esophagitis Center

May 8th, 2022 - BACKGROUND Refeeding syndrome (RFS) is a life-threatening syndrome, which can cause sudden death. RFS has been reported frequently in young patients with anorexia without organic disease; however, there are few reports in elderly patients with org...

Apr 28th, 2022 - There is limited data on long-term outcomes of per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). In this study, we aim to evaluate the efficacy of POEM in patients who completed a minimum follow-up of 5 years. Data of patients who underwent POEM and completed ≥...

Apr 13th, 2022 - Although laparoscopic distal gastrectomy has been widely used for distal gastric cancer, the best functional reconstruction type has not yet been established. Based on previous experience, we propose a modified uncut Roux-en-Y anastomosis. This st...

Apr 6th, 2022 - The goal of this study was to identify the clinical outcomes of uncut Roux-en-Y reconstruction in patients who underwent totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (TLDG) over 3-year follow-up. From January 2016 to December 2017, 269 patients who und...

Apr 6th, 2022 - The pathogenesis of subsquamous intestinal metaplasia (SSIM), in which glands of Barrett's esophagus (BE) are buried under esophageal squamous epithelium, is unknown. In a rat model of reflux esophagitis, we found that columnar-lined esophagus dev...

Mar 24th, 2022 - The study is designed as a double-blind randomized controlled clinical trial to test the hypothesis that camostat mesylate, a serine protease inhibitor shown to inhibit SARS-COV-2 replication in vitro, inhibits SARS-COV-2 replication in early stag...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Subjects are allocated to four groups based on their disease and weight. Number of Subjects Maintenance therapy for healed reflux esophagitis study part: Group1:aged 1 to 14 years (weight more than equal 10 kg to less than 20 kg ), Maintenance pha...

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...

Aug 18th, 2021 - Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and its complication, Barrett's esophagus (BE), are risk factors for esophageal adenocarcinoma. In BE, GERD causes inflammation with oxidative DNA damage and genomic instability that contributes to carcinogen...

Aug 3rd, 2021 - Forty-five regular users of PPIs entered in a 28-day run-in phase of pantoprazole 40 mg/day, followed by clinical and endoscopic evaluation. In the absence of large hiatal hernia, peptic ulcer, or moderate to severe reflux esophagitis, patients st...

Nov 2nd, 2021 - In the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection, combination therapies using the oral potassium-competitive acid blocker vonoprazan were superior to standard proton pump inhibitor (PPI)–based triple therapy, producing higher eradication rates, a...

Jun 16th, 2021 - Visceral fat obesity was the key risk factor in developing reflux erosive esophagitis among middle-age adults, Japanese researchers found in a cross-sectional study. Incidence of erosive esophagitis was higher among adults ages 40 to 69 with visce...

Apr 2nd, 2021 - Transcript: Dirk De Ruysscher, MD, PhD: The dosage fractionation of radiation is calculated in a way that we try to avoid the normal tissues as much as possible. What we did in the past was a lot of experimental work to individualize the dose ...

Jul 14th, 2020 - Answer 1/5 Which of the following symptoms is most specific for reflux esophagitis associated with GERD? Your peers chose: Dysphagia and nausea in combination 0% Regurgitation 0% Odynophagia 0% Chest pain preceded by abdominal bloating 0% The most...

Jul 14th, 2020 - Esophageal food impaction can be the initial presentation of PPI-responsive eosinophilic esophagitis. A study that compared the initial presenting symptoms of eosinophilic esophagitis reported that women more commonly presented with heartburn, whe...