Some embodiments are related to a method for determining if a subject has an increased likelihood of high grade dysplasia (HGD) or esophagal adenocarcinoma (EC). An exemplary method can include providing a sample from an AFI patch of the subject's esophagus, assaying the sample for (i) aneup...
Practice Advice 6:Under ideal circumstances, surveillance biopsies should not be performed in the presence of active inflammation (erosive esophagitis, Los Angeles grade C and D). Pathologists should be informed if biopsies are obtained in the setting of erosive esophagitis and if pathology findings ...