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World Gastroenterology Organisation Global Guidelines: GERD Global Perspective on Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.
Richard H. Hunt,David Armstrong,Peter H. Katelaris,Mary Afihene,Abate Bane,Shobna Bhatia,Minhu Chen,Myung Gyu Choi,Angelita Cristine de Melo,Kwong Ming Fock,Alex Ford,Michio Hongo,Aamir G. Khan,Leonid B. Lazebnik,Greger Lindberg,Maribel Lizarzábal,Thein Myint,Joaquim Prado P Moraes-Filho,Graciela Salis,Jaw-Town Lin,Raj Vaidya,Abdelmounen Abdo,Anton LeMair +22 more
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A century ago, Elie Metchnikoff postulated that lactic acid bacteria offered health benefits capable of promoting longevity and suggested that “intestinal autoint” bacteria should be studied.Abstract:
PROBIOTICS—THE CONCEPTHistory and DefinitionsA century ago, Elie Metchnikoff (a Russian scientist, Nobel laureate, and professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris) postulated that lactic acid bacteria (LAB) offered health benefits capable of promoting longevity. He suggested that “intestinal autointread more
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Endoscopic anti-reflux therapy for gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Enrique Rodríguez de Santiago,Eduardo Albéniz,Fermin Estremera-Arevalo,Carlos Teruel Sánchez-Vegazo,Vicente Lorenzo-Zúñiga +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an updated summary focused on the patient selection, technical details, clinical success, and safety of current and future endoscopic anti-reflux techniques, including transoral incisionless fundoplication and nonablative radiofrequency.
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Magnetic Sphincter Augmentation for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.
TL;DR: Current research focuses on implanting the device into more complex patients, such as those with larger hiatal hernias or those with Barrett's esophagus, and cost analysis and predicting and minimizing postoperative dysphagia.
Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Arak, Iran during 2011
Ali Fani,Mohammad Rezaei,Behruz Alizade,Parisa Mirzajani,Soheila Shamsikhani,Mohammad Rafeie,Ali Akbar Malekirad,Saeed Baghi Nejad +7 more
TL;DR: Using disinfected tap water in both urban and rural areas in addition to improved access to general health care might have a role in this relative lower prevalence of H. pylori.
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API-ISG Consensus Guidelines for Management of Gastrooesophageal Reflux Disease.
Shobna Bhatia,K K Pareek,Ajay Kumar,Rajesh Upadhyay,Mangesh Tiwaskar,Abhinav Jain,Pritam Gupta,Milind Y Nadkar,Anupam Prakash,Amit Kumar Dutta,Radhika Chavan,Saurabh Kedia,Vineet Ahuja,Uday C Ghoshal,Ashish Agarwal,Govind K. Makharia +15 more
TL;DR: The diagnosis of GERD in the community should be mainly based on presence of classical symptoms like heartburn and sour regurgitation, and empiric treatment with a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) or H2 receptor antagonist should be given.
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Correlates of gastroenterology health-services utilization among patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease: a large database analysis
Wasef Na'amnih,Racheli Katz,Sophy Goren,Amir Ben-Tov,Tomer Ziv-Baran,Gabriel Chodick,Khitam Muhsen +6 more
TL;DR: Patient and physician’s characteristics were related to high utilization of gastroenterology services among GERD patients, and the associations with age and country of birth might reflect more severe disease.
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Gluten, major histocompatibility complex, and the small intestine: A molecular and immunobiologic approach to the spectrum of gluten sensitivity (‘celiac sprue’)
TL;DR: The nature and basis of nonresponsive celiac sprue require more thoughtful initiatives to elucidate the immunologic mechanism(s) of unresponsiveness and evaluate possible means of reversal.