GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE: WHAT IS KNOWN, WHERE DO WE GO? [PDF]
The gastroesophageal reflux disease is a common clinical condition that physicians can manage in most cases and sometimes even the patients treat themselves. But not all forms of gastroesophageal reflux are so typical, and some recently described forms
Bogdan Ianoşi, Dan L. Dumitraşcu
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Chronic cough and esomeprazole: A double-blind placebo-controlled parallel study [PDF]
Background and objective: Gastro-oesophageal reflux has been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic cough. Guidelines on management suggest a therapeutic trial of anti-reflux medication.
Beecher +41 more
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Knowledge and practice of Brazilian pediatricians on gastroesophageal reflux disease in infants
OBJECTIVE: To assess the knowledge and practice of pediatricians about infants with physiological reflux and gastroesophageal reflux disease. METHODS: 140 pediatricians were interviewed during two scientific events in 2009 and 2010.
Ana Cristina Fontenele Soares +2 more
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Effect of Body Mass Index on Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Background and objectives: The gastroesophageal reflux disease is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in surgery because of its complicated etiology and pathophysiology. Its incidence is increasing parallel with obesity throughout the world.
Sabah Jalal Shareef
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The effect of dietary intake, physical activity and posture on pepsin concentrations detected in the saliva of free-living, healthy individuals [PDF]
Introduction: Diet and lifestyle are believed to be major causes of gastric reflux. The occurrence of reflux is associated with a number of respiratory, oesophageal and airways conditions.
Brownlee, Iain +8 more
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Hiatoplasty with crura buttressing versus hiatoplasty alone during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy [PDF]
Introduction. In obese patients with hiatal hernia (HH), laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) with cruroplasty is an option but use of prosthetic mesh crura reinforcement is debated.
Badiali, Danilo +6 more
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The esophagogastric junctional adenocarcinoma an increasing disease [PDF]
Identifying and defining the esophagogastric junctional adenocarcinoma (EGJA) as an independent disease apart from gastric cancer (GC) and esophagus cancer (EG) it has always been a difficult issue entailing doubts about the appropriate therapeutic ...
Andreetti, Claudio +3 more
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Observational studies have suggested a positive association between gastroesophageal reflux disease and lung cancer, but due to the existence of confounders, it remains undetermined whether gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) has a causal association ...
Jing Yang +6 more
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Comorbid Conditions in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Recognition and Management. [PDF]
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a fibrosing interstitial pneumonia of unknown etiology, primarily affects older adults and leads to a progressive decline in lung function and quality of life.
Collard, Harold R, Oldham, Justin M
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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease [PDF]
Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is a normal physiologic process. It is important to distinguish GER from GER disease (GERD) since GER does not require treatment. Although a diagnosis of GERD can largely be based on history and physical alone, endoscopy and pH impedance studies can help make the diagnosis when there in atypical presentation.
Mousa, Hayat, Hassan, Maheen
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