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Acid Reflux Disease

Research in the area of acid reflux disease reported from M.O. Pool and colleagues

Published in Telemedicine Week, March 4th, 2008

" Therapeutic success in the treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease cannot be measured by endoscopic healing or symptomatic relief alone. Assessment of treatment efficacy should be based on symptomatic relief and endoscopic healing," scientists in Netherlands report.

"As most questionnaires focus on heartburn, it is important to stress that there is more to gastro-oesophageal reflux disease than just heartburn. The 'complete remission' concept was recently introduced; an approach in which endoscopic appearances and symptomatic relief are integrated, thus allowing the full gastro-oesophageal reflux disease picture and its changes over time to be described in a...

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