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Esophageal Distensibility as a Measure of Disease Severity in Patients with Eosinophilic Esophagitis

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Reduced esophageal distensibility predicts risk for food impaction and the requirement for esphageal dilation in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis and the severity of mucosal eOSinophilia was not predictive of these outcomes and had a poor correlation with esophagesibility.
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This article is published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Eosinophilic esophagitis.

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Functional Esophageal Disorders

TL;DR: Treatments directed at improving borderline motor dysfunction or reducing reflux burden to sub-normal levels have limited success in symptom improvement, and strategies focused on modulating peripheral triggering and central perception are mechanistically viable and clinically meaningful.
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A phenotypic analysis shows that eosinophilic esophagitis is a progressive fibrostenotic disease

TL;DR: In this large EoE cohort, the likelihood of fibrostenotic disease increased markedly with age, and this association suggests that the natural history of Eosinophilic esophagitis is a progression from an inflammatory to a fibrostanotic disease.
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Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Adults Is Associated With IgG4 and Not Mediated by IgE

TL;DR: Findings indicate that, in adults, eosinophilic esophagitis is IgG4-associated, and not an IgE-induced allergy, and that omalizumab did not alter symptoms of eos inophilic Esophageal mucosal biopsy samples compared with placebo.
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Advances in clinical management of eosinophilic esophagitis.

TL;DR: The current diagnostic criteria and challenges to diagnosis are explained, including the role of gastroesophageal reflux disease and proton pump inhibitor-responsive esphageal eosinophilia, and the main treatment approaches and new treatment options are reviewed.
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Eosinophilic esophagitis in children and adults: a systematic review and consensus recommendations for diagnosis and treatment.

TL;DR: A multidisciplinary task force of 31 physicians assembled with the goal of determining diagnostic criteria and making recommendations for evaluation and treatment of children and adults with suspected eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) provided current recommendations for care of affected patients.
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Natural history of primary eosinophilic esophagitis: a follow-up of 30 adult patients for up to 11.5 years

TL;DR: Eosinophilic esophagitis, a primary and chronic disease restricted to the esophagus, leads to persistent dysphagia and structural esophageal alterations but does not impact the nutritional state.
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Endoscopic assessment of the oesophageal features of eosinophilic oesophagitis: validation of a novel classification and grading system

TL;DR: The proposed system for endoscopically-identified oesophageal features of EoE defines common nomenclature and severity scores for the assessment of EiE disease activity and has good interobserver agreement among practising and academic gastroenterologists.
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Histopathologic variability and endoscopic correlates in adults with eosinophilic esophagitis.

TL;DR: Significant histologic variability exists among biopsy specimens from individual patients with EE and necessitates multiple biopsies to improve diagnostic sensitivity, and marked variability within and between biopsy specimen of individual patients is revealed.
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