© 2005 by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Society of Gastroenterology
Digest
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
The idea of endoscopic surgery to cure gastro-oesophageal reflux has tremendous appeal and initial data looked very promising, with two thirds of patients off all medication soon after the procedure. However, reflux is a long term condition and as the current study of 70 patients from the University of Lieipzig shows, the initial benefit receded rapidly. By 18 months 80% were considered failures and most were back on medication. Objective measures at 12 months showed no reduction in distal oesophageal acid exposure or lower oesophageal sphincter pressure. Disappointingly, at this time no suture remained in 26% of patients and two out of the three sutures had disappeared in 43%, suggesting that suture loss is an important reason for this poor result. Whether improved suturing techniques will solve this problem remains to be determined.
See p 752
As many countries start to grapple with the problems of national colorectal cancer screening
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Articles
- Long term failure of endoscopic gastroplication (EndoCinch)
- I Schiefke, A Zabel-Langhennig, S Neumann, J Feisthammel, J Moessner, and K Caca
Gut 2005 54: 752-758.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Interval faecal occult blood testing in a colonoscopy based screening programme detects additional pathology
- P A Bampton, J J Sandford, S R Cole, A Smith, J Morcom, B Cadd, and G P Young
Gut 2005 54: 803-806.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
-
Nuclear factor
B inactivation in the rat liver ameliorates short term total warm ischaemia/reperfusion injury
- H Suetsugu, Y Iimuro, T Uehara, T Nishio, N Harada, M Yoshida, E Hatano, G Son, J Fujimoto, and Y Yamaoka
Gut 2005 54: 835-842.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
-
Ephrin-A1 expression contributes to the malignant characteristics of
-fetoprotein producing hepatocellular carcinoma
- H Iida, M Honda, H F Kawai, T Yamashita, Y Shirota, B-C Wang, H Miao, and S Kaneko
Gut 2005 54: 843-851.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes in 373 Italian children with HCV infection: changing distribution and correlation with clinical features and outcome
- F Bortolotti, M Resti, M Marcellini, R Giacchino, G Verucchi, G Nebbia, L Zancan, M G Marazzi, C Barbera, A Maccabruni, G Zuin, G Maggiore, F Balli, P Vajro, L Lepore, M Molesini, M Guido, S Bartolacci, F Noventa the Italian Observatory for Hepatitis C in children
Gut 2005 54: 852-857.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
This article has been cited by other articles:
-
Fuccio, L., Zagari, R. M., Eusebi, L. H., Laterza, L., Cennamo, V., Ceroni, L., Grilli, D., Bazzoli, F.
(2009). Meta-analysis: Can Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatment Reduce the Risk for Gastric Cancer?. ANN INTERN MED
151: 121-128
[Abstract] [Full Text]
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
