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Clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Cappell MS

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, 5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, PA 19141-3098, USA. mscappell@yahoo.com

GERD is ubiquitous throughout the adult population in the United States. It commonly adversely affects quality of life and occasionally causes life-threatening complications. The new and emerging medical and endoscopic therapies for GERD and the new management strategies for BE should dramatically reduce the clinical toll of this disease on society.

Published 19 January 2005 in Med Clin North Am, 89(2): 243-91.
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