Two years ago, Jerry Boyle joined the roughly 60 million other Americans who suffer from chronic indigestion. Boyle began taking pills to keep the symptoms away, but that didn't solve the problem. "I ...

Oct. 22, 2002 -- Even though it cuts the need for anti-acid drugs, GERD surgery isn't cost-effective in the short term. Sullivan's team matched 123 GERD patients who opted for surgery with 246 GERD ...

March 24, 2010 — Laparoscopic fundoplication surgery is more effective than medical management for treating gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD, also referred to as GORD), at least in the short to ...

Before surgery, you'll probably get tests to check how well the muscles in your esophagus work, including esophageal manometry and esophageal motility studies. Because you're taking a risk with any ...

Patients with refractory GERD (rGERD) are those individuals whose symptoms do not respond to a stable double dose of a PPI during a treatment period of at least 12 weeks Weakly acidic reflux episodes ...

Diagnosis of GERD is particularly challenging in adults who do not respond to PPI therapy and in children; careful assessment and phenotyping of patients presenting with reflux symptoms can reduce ...