The opinion magazine of the American Gastroenterological Association
The first clinical descriptions of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) emerged over two decades ago. Subsequently, adults with food impaction or dysphagia or change to children with non-descriptive gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)–like symptoms are increasingly recognized as having something different than GERD. Soon thereafter, a whole set of distinct eosinophilic GI diseases (EGID) involving various segments of […]
We are all aware that the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma has been rising rapidly over the last 50 years. Since the cancer is associated with an endoscopically visible lesion in Barrett’s esophagus, screening for esophageal adenocarcinoma ought to be relatively easy compared to screening for other terrible cancers, such as pancreatic or ovarian. But there […]
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