Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

by Granderath, Frank A.; Kamolz, Thomas; Pointner, Rudolph

• ISBN13: 9783211235898
• ISBN10: 3211235892
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-22
• Publisher: Springer Verlag Wien

Summary

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is one of the most common disorders with an increasing prevalence and incidence in the last two decades. This book, edited by two experienced surgeons and a clinical psychologist in cooperation with numerous worldwide leading experts, presents clinically relevant information for gastroenterologists, internists, surgeons, residents and also nurses who frequently care for GERD patients. Focusing on different treatment concepts ' medical, endoscopic as well as surgical ' the chapters include the basics of symptomatology and epidemiology, pathophysiology, GERD among different age groups, complications and its treatment, hiatal hernia or H. pylori and GERD, NERD and functional heartburn, diagnostic procedures and also presurgical examination. In addition, the patient's perspective of disease, diagnostics and treatment are included, the same as economic aspects of GERD, and the impact of disease on quality of life or patient-reported outcomes after treatment.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xiii
Clinical spectrum, natural history and epidemiology of GERD	1	(12)
F. Pace
G. Bianchi Porro
The pathophysiology of GERD	13	(10)
R. Dickman
R. Fass
Gastroesophageal reflux disease in the elderly	23	(22)
M.F. Vaezi
J. Swoger
Gastroesophageal reflux disease in infants and children	45	(20)
Seema Khan
S. R. Orenstein
Barrett's esophagus	65	(8)
R. E. Sampliner
The intriguing relationship of Helicobacter pylori infection and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease	73	(8)
C. Knippig
P. Malfertheiner
EGJ dysfunction and GERD	81	(12)
P.J. Kabrilas
J.E. Pandolfino
Non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) and functional heartburn	93	(10)
E. M. M. Quigley
Medical therapy of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease	103	(10)
H. Koop
Diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease: role of endoscopy	113	(8)
A. Bansal
P. Sharma
Diagnostic procedures in GERD: principles and values of esophageal manometry and pH-monitoring	121	(18)
R. Tutuian
D. O. Castell
Endoscopic anti-reflux therapy	139	(10)
E. Gunter
Ch. Ell
Indication for antireflux surgery	149	(10)
K.-H. Fuchs
M. Fein
J. Maroske
W. Breithaupt
I. Hammer
The history of surgery for hiatal hernia and gastroesophageal reflux	159	(8)
R. P. Turk
Alex G. Little
Comparison of laparoscopic and open antireflux procedures	167	(6)
V. Velanovich
Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication	173	(10)
B. Dallemagne
Laparoscopic Toupet fundoplication	183	(6)
C. Zornig
Complete versus partial fundoplication	189	(10)
L. Lundell
Adverse outcomes and failure following laparoscopic antireflux surgery	199	(12)
D.I. Watson
Laparoscopic refundoplication: surgical intervention after failed antireflux operations	211	(4)
R. Pointner
Hiatal closure - new trends in laparoscopic antireflux surgery	215	(20)
F.A. Granderath
C. T. Frantzides
M. A. Carlson
Radiologic imaging of gastroesophageal reflux disease	235	(20)
M. S. Levine
Long-term outcome and perspectives of laparoscopic fundoplication	255	(6)
B. Hugl
R. A. Hinder
Telerobotic-assisted antireflux surgery: Nissen fundoplication	261	(8)
G. B. Cadiere
J. Himpens
G. Dapri
Symptoms, health-related quality of life and patient satisfaction: using these patient-reported outcomes in people with gastroesophageal reflux disease	269	(18)
S. Wood-Dauphinee
D. Korolija
The impact of disease and treatment on health-related quality of life in patients suffering from GERD	287	(12)
T. Kamolz
V. Velanovich
The patients' perspective	299	(10)
G. Nilsson
Gastroesophageal reflux disease: a psychological perspective of interaction and therapeutic implications	309	(10)
T. Kamolz
Economic analyses of GERD	319
N. Vakil
N. Guda