Background: The reason why less than one‐half of patients with gastro‐oesophageal reflux
disease develop complicated reflux disease (ulcerative oesophagitis, oesophageal …

Background: The majority of patients with gastro‐oesophageal reflux disease do not present
with erosive oesophagitis and make up a heterogeneous group. Patients with non‐erosive …

Background Nocturnal gastro‐oesophageal reflux diseases (GERD) can lead to
oesophageal mucosal injury and extra‐oesophageal complications. Aim To compare …

Background Studies have demonstrated that patients with Barrett's oesophagus have the
highest oesophageal acid exposure profile, followed by erosive oesophagitis and non …

Twenty-four normal subjects and 64 symptomatic patients with various degrees of reflux
disease (24 with reflux symptoms without esophagitis and 21 with mild and 19 with severe …

OBJECTIVE: To quantify normal proximal and distal oesophageal acid parameters in
healthy Chinese. DESIGN: Observational study. SETTING: University teaching hospital …

We performed 24-hr ambulatory esophageal pH monitoring in north Indian patients with
gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and correlated it with symptom severity and …

Background The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying proton pump inhibitor-
refractory reflux oesophagitis has been scarcely studied. Aims To assess impedance-pH …

Background Patients with non‐erosive reflux disease can experience reflux symptoms with
similar frequency and severity as those with erosive reflux disease. Oesophageal motility …

Previous studies of the mechanisms that precipitate acid reflux episodes have used short
term hospital based measurements. A 24 hour pH and motility recording system …