Endoscopic therapy for GERD: Does it have a future?

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-221

  Ryou, Marvin ^a   Thompson, Christopher C ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; STOMACH SECRETION INHIBITOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORBID OBESITY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHARYNGITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SHAM PROCEDURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION;

CATHETER ABLATION; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FUNDOPLICATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS;

EID: 54049146394     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-008-0046-3     Document Type: Review

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