Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Principles of Disease, Diagnosis, and Treatment
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Beschreibung
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a widespread disorder whose incidence and prevalence have risen markedly in recent decades. Focusing on different treatment concepts - medical, endoscopic and surgical - the chapters cover the basics of symptomatology and epidemiology, pathophysiology, GERD among different age groups, complications and its treatment, hiatal hernia or H. pylori and GERD, GERD and functional heartburn, diagnostic procedures and also pre-surgical examination. In addition, the patient's perspective of this disease, diagnostics and treatment are considered, as are economic aspects of GERD, and the impact of disease on quality of life and patient-reported outcomes after treatment.
State-of-the-art review by international experts Covers all aspects from surgery, pharmacology to psychology Open discussion of complications Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Frank Alexander Granderath
Themen in »Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease«
Evaluation Focusing GERD Internist Intervention Management diagnosis diagnostics endoscopy heartburn thoracic surgery