Effect of famotidine on oesophageal sensitivity in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

Effect of famotidine on oesophageal sensitivity in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

Gastric acid suppression could improve heartburn by healing oesophagitis or by reduction of oesophageal sensitivity to acid. To independently assess changes in oesophageal sensitivity, it would be necessary to study patients with reflux disease but no oesophagitis. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of acid suppression on oesophageal sensitivity and to assess the time course of...

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease is one of the most common disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Over past decades, considerable shifts in thinking about the disease have taken place. At a time when radiology was the only diagnostic test available, reflux disease was regarded as synonymous with hiatus hernia. After the advent of the flexible endoscope, reflux disease was, for a period, equa...

Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease

Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease

Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease