Belching: Is It Dyspepsia or GERD?DyspepsiaGastroesophageal Reflux DiseasespH Monitoring
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common upper gastrointestinal disorder and can be differentiated an erosive esophagitis (esophageal reflux disease, ERD) and non-erosive reflux disease (NERD). The prevalence of GERD in western countries is higher at approximately 20% than that in Asian co...
T1098 Multi-Modality Evaluation of Patients With GERD Symptoms Who Have Failed Empiric PPI Therapy Reflux-like dyspepsia (RLD), where predominant epigastric pain is associated with heartburn and/or regurgitation, is a common clinical syndrome in both primary and specialty care. Because symptom frequen...
Methods: Patients with symptomatic endoscopically verified esophagitis (grade II-IV) were treated with 20 mg omeprazole a day for 4 wk and reendoscoped. Those not healed and not symptom free were randomized to continue treatment for 4 more weeks with 20 mg/day or 40 mg/day, and were re...
Functional dyspepsia (FD)Proton pump inhibitorAcid-related dyspepsiaGastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and functional dyspepsia (FD) are frequently overlapped. However, no treatment strategies have been established yet for such patients. This study compared the effects of proton pump inhibitor (PPI) ...
In Chronically Constipated Patients, History of GERD and Non-Ulcer Dyspepsia Is Common and Does Not Alter the Response to Tegaserod (T): 70Lembo, A.Bottoli, I.Dunger-Baldauf, C.Shetzline, M.Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG...