If you or someone you love has acid reflux disease, you may be hearing more about the following six letters: CLE and CFM. These are two of the techniques being introduced this week at Digestive Disease Week, a gathering of physicians, researchers, and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, and endoscopy. Digestive Disease Week is considered the largest meeting in the world for GI professionals, attracting more than 16,000 professionals who desire to stay up-to-date in...
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New Tool May Help to Detect Reflux in Children
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Scintigraphy may become the newest tool to detect acid reflux in children. Research from Pakistan shows scintigraphy to be highly effective... Read more »
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Diagnosing None-Verbal Children with Acid Reflux
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In spite of the fancy technology available to quantitate and qualitate reflux in kids, its identification remains what we call a clinical... Read more »
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Is there any definitive test to diagnose reflux?
By Todd Eisner, Health Expert
As to whether there is any definitive test to diagnose reflux disease, the gold standard for diagnosing reflux is a 24-hour pH monitor. The... Read more »
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Is Reflux Overtreated and Overdiagnosed?
By Beth Anderson, Health Expert
PAGER received a call from a reporter last Friday. The reporter talked to Jennifer Rackley and asked whether we think acid reflux is over... Read more »
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Preparing for Your Child's Endoscopy
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Tomorrow (Wednesday), my 5-year-old son will undergo an upper endoscopy, which is an exploratory procedure that allows his doctor to look... Read more »
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New Tool May ID Acid Reflux
A new scanning technique may help doctors determine the severity of acid reflux problems. Researchers in India found that people whose esophagus... Read more »
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