BACKGROUND The Lyon Consensus classification confirms or rules out gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The refractory symptoms of patients with GERD taking proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are challenging in clinical practice....
Increasing studies suggest a significant association between night shift work and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic disorders. However, the available evidence of the association of rotating night...
Endoscopic resection (ER) is an important component of the endoscopic treatment of Barrett’s Esophagus (BE) with dysplasia and intramucosal adenocarcinoma (IMC). ER can be performed by cap assisted endoscopic mucosal...
Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is used for the treatment of early esophageal cancer (EEC).This a retrospective study aimed to study the efficacy, safety, and the recurrence rate of EEC following EMR.Seventy-nine patients who...
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE), part of the spectrum of eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders (EGID), share pathogenic similarities. We examined differences regarding clinical...
 Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is associated with accelerated decline in lung health in children with cystic fibrosis (CF). Thus, antireflux surgery (ARS) is offered to a selected CF cohort with refractory GERD, but...
The first part of this overview on non-neoplastic esophagus is focused on gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and Barrett’s esophagus. In the last 20 years much has changed in histological approach to biopsies of...
Uncertain diagnostic performance has limited clinical adoption of salivary pepsin, a noninvasive diagnostic tool for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). This study aimed to assess diagnostic performance of salivary pepsin,...
Dyspepsia and heartburn are extremely common conditions, thus a search for safe and effective treatment alternatives is justified.To demonstrate the noninferiority of Gastricumeel (Ga6) in terms of effectiveness and safety to...
In the recent years, topical hemostatic powders have been used for the management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The aim of this study was to report on the use of an hemostatic powder (Hemospray®), outside regular hours, by...
Many studies on the relationship between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) were based on symptoms, but there are few research on it using reflux monitoring. This study was designed to...
Saliva is the most important biological factor to protect against erosive tooth wear (ETW). Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) patients have an increased risk of ETW due to the frequent presence of intrinsic acids in the...
