Does the evidence show that prokinetic agents are effective in healing esophagitis and improving symptoms of GERD?

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is common in affluent societies, and its prevalence is also on the rise in developing regions such as Southeast Asia.1 When heartburn and regurgitation are the dominant symptoms, a diagnosis of GERD can be made. Manzotti and colleagues report in Open Medicine t...

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Autores principales: Looijer-van Langen, Mirjam, Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Sander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Open Medicine Publications, Inc. 2007
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Analysis and Comment
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21673950
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description Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is common in affluent societies, and its prevalence is also on the rise in developing regions such as Southeast Asia.1 When heartburn and regurgitation are the dominant symptoms, a diagnosis of GERD can be made. Manzotti and colleagues report in Open Medicine the findings of a systematic review in which they evaluate the use of prokinetic agents in the treatment of reflux esophagitis.
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spelling pubmed-31132192011-06-13 Does the evidence show that prokinetic agents are effective in healing esophagitis and improving symptoms of GERD? Looijer-van Langen, Mirjam Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Sander Open Med Analysis and Comment Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is common in affluent societies, and its prevalence is also on the rise in developing regions such as Southeast Asia.1 When heartburn and regurgitation are the dominant symptoms, a diagnosis of GERD can be made. Manzotti and colleagues report in Open Medicine the findings of a systematic review in which they evaluate the use of prokinetic agents in the treatment of reflux esophagitis. Open Medicine Publications, Inc. 2007-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3113219/ /pubmed/21673950 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/ Open Medicine applies the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License, which means that anyone is able to freely copy, download, reprint, reuse, distribute, display or perform this work and that authors retain copyright of their work. Any derivative use of this work must be distributed only under a license identical to this one and must be attributed to the authors. Any of these conditions can be waived with permission from the copyright holder. These conditions do not negate or supersede Fair Use laws in any country.
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Does the evidence show that prokinetic agents are effective in healing esophagitis and improving symptoms of GERD?
title Does the evidence show that prokinetic agents are effective in healing esophagitis and improving symptoms of GERD?
title_full Does the evidence show that prokinetic agents are effective in healing esophagitis and improving symptoms of GERD?
title_fullStr Does the evidence show that prokinetic agents are effective in healing esophagitis and improving symptoms of GERD?
title_full_unstemmed Does the evidence show that prokinetic agents are effective in healing esophagitis and improving symptoms of GERD?
title_short Does the evidence show that prokinetic agents are effective in healing esophagitis and improving symptoms of GERD?
title_sort does the evidence show that prokinetic agents are effective in healing esophagitis and improving symptoms of gerd?
topic Analysis and Comment
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