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).

Foreword Preface Part 1:GERD Overview 1GERD Pathophysiology Pim W. Weijenborg, Boudewijn F. Kessing, Andre J.P.M. Smout 2GERD: Epidemiology, Impact on quality of life, Heath Economics Implications Nimish Vakil 3Overview of Tools for the Diagnosis of GERD Marcelo Vela 4Overview of GERD Treatments Sabine Roman, Peter J. Kahrilas 5GERD Treatment: Side Effects and Complications of Acid Suppression David A. Johnson 6GERD Treatment: Side Effects and Complications of Fundoplication Joel E. Richter Part 2:GERD: Management of Specific Clinical Presentations 7Evaluation and Management of Refractory GERD John A. Pandolfino, Sabine Roman 8Functional Heartburn Stanislas Bruley des Varannes, Frank Zerbib and Jean Paul Galmiche 9The Role of Acid Reflux in Non Cardiac Chest Pain Cristina Almansa, Sami R. Achem 10Laryngopharyngeal Reflux Robert T. Kavitt, Michael F. Vaezi 11GERD-Related Cough Etsuro Yazaki, Ryuichi Shimono and Daniel Sifrim 12GERD and Sleep Tiberiu Hershcovici, Ronnie Fass 13Aerophagia and Belching Arjan Bredenoord 14Dysphagia and GERD Donald O. Castell, Erick R. Singh 15Role of Treating GERD in Patients with Eosinophilic Esophagitis Kumar Krishnan, Ikuo Hirano 16Helicobacter plyori and GERD Maria Pina Dore, David Y. Graham Part 3: Barrett's Esophagus 17Barrett's Esophagus: Diagnosis and Surveillance Gary W. Falk 18Barrett's Esophagus: Treatment Options Jianmin Tian, Kenneth Wang Index, XX