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An update to The American College of Gastroenterology's 2013 clinical guidelines on the Diagnosis & Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) published online in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
The authors, Philip O. Katz, MD, MACG, Kerry B. Dunbar, MD, PhD, Felice H. Schnoll-Sussman, MD, FACG, Katarina B. Greer, MD, MS, FACG, Rena Yadlapati, MD, MSHS and Stuart Jon Spechler, MD, FACG provide updated, evidence-based recommendations and practical guidance for the evaluation and management of GERD, including pharmacologic, lifestyle, surgical, and endoscopic management.
In this update, the authors recognize increased scrutiny of the role of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and outline clinically important advances in surgical and endoscopy therapy of GERD. Clinical algorithms on GERD diagnosis, as well as diagnosis of extraesophageal GERD symptoms, supplement the graded recommendations. Two management algorithms address patients incompletely responsive to PPIs: those a) previously empirically treated with PPI in the absence of objective workup, and b) those patients objectively defined as GERD.
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