DDW Report 2004 New Orleans: Reflux Disease and Barrett’s Esophagus

 

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Introduction

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and Barrett’s esophagus (BE) are still major topics in the field of clinical research. More data are accumulating concerning the endoscopic diagnosis of subtle abnormalities, to allow better classification of patients into those who are endoscopy-positive or endoscopy-negative (nonerosive reflux disease). The situation with regard to endoscopic antireflux techniques has not become much clearer, although evidence appears to be gathering to show that they are not objectively effective. In Barrett’s esophagus (BE), many abstracts dealt with diagnostic techniques, as well as resection and ablation methods, without there being any substantial breakthroughs. As with the other Digestive Disease Week reports, only the most relevant studies are reported in detail here. The remaining abstracts are summarized in the tables.

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