Practical Manual of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Marcelo F. Vela, MD, MSCR, Associate Professor of Medicine, is the director of the gastrointestinal motility program at Baylor Clinic and the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA. Dr. Vela is a nationally recognized specialist in esophageal diseases, swallowing disorders, and gastrointestinal motility. Dr John E. Pandolfino is Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. Dr Pandolfino has published extensively on gastrointestinal complications in surgery, pH monitoring of esophageal acid exposure, clinical use of esophageal manometry, and therapies and management of disorders of gastrointestinal motility. His research interests include esophageal physiology, gastroesophageal reflux disease, swallowing disorders, and esophageal diseases. Joel E Richter MD is Richard L Evans Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He specializes in the diagnosis and management of, and performs clinical research on, esophageal diseases including Barrett's oesophagus, GERD (including its extraesophageal presentation), achalasia and other motility disorders, non-cardiac chest pain, dysphagia and the effects that H. pylori has on the oesophagus. He has published more than 500 articles, chapters and books. He is the current co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology and past President of the American College of Gastroenterology and World Organization for Specialized Studies on Diseases of the Esophagus.Dr Richter has 338 articles on PubMed, and is editor of the following books: Ambulatory Esophageal Ph Monitoring: Practical Approach and Clinical Applications; Dysphagia: Diagnosis and Treatment; Gerd: Current Issues and Controversies; Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2nd edition (May 2012); The Esophagus, 5th edition (published March 2012).

• List of Contributors, viiPreface, ixPart 1: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Overview, 11 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Pathophysiology, 3Pim W. Weijenborg, Boudewijn F. Kessing, and André J.P.M. Smout2 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Epidemiology, Impact on Quality of Life, and Health Economic Implications, 26Nimish Vakil3 Overview of the Tools for the Diagnosis of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, 39Nicolas A. Villa and Marcelo F. Vela4 Overview of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Treatments, 53Sabine Roman and Peter J. Kahrilas5 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Treatment: Side-Effects and Complications of Acid Suppression, 69David A. Johnson6 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Treatment: Side-Effects and Complications of Fundoplication, 83Joel E. RichterPart 2: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Management of Specific Clinical Presentations, 977 Evaluation and Management of Refractory Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, 99John E. Pandolfino and Sabine Roman8 Functional Heartburn, 115Stanislas Bruley des Varannes, Frank Zerbib, and Jean-Paul Galmiche9 The Role of Acid Reflux in Non-Cardiac Chest Pain, 132Cristina Almansa and Sami R. Achem10 Laryngopharyngeal Reflux, 154Robert T. Kavitt and Michael F. Vaezi11 Reflux-Related Cough, 179Etsuro Yazaki, Ryuichi Shimono, and Daniel Sifrim12 Relationship between Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Sleep, 195Tiberiu Hershcovici and Ronnie Fass13 Aerophagia and Belching, 221Albert J. Bredenoord14 Dysphagia and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, 239Donald O. Castell and Erick R. Singh15 Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Interactions with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, 253Kumar Krishnan and Ikuo Hirano16 Helicobacter pylori and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, 267Maria Pina Dore and David Y. GrahamPart 3: Barrett ’ s Esophagus, 28717 Barrett ’ s Esophagus: Diagnosis and Surveillance, 289Gary W. Falk18 Barrett ’ s Esophagus: Treatment Options, 310Jianmin Tian and Kenneth K. WangIndex, 335Color plate section can be found facing page 118