Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16335859›Full record

ReviewDrugs2005

Maintenance therapy in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

Miguel Bixquert

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Review in Drugs, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Miguel BixquertDepartment of Medicine, University of Valencia, Spain. miguel.bixquert@uv.es
Universitat de València · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is a chronic condition. Symptom control and the maintenance of healing of erosive oesophagitis, if present, are important topics. In patients responding to a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) and showing no treatment symptoms it is appropriate to consider long-term treatment strategies, whether continuous, intermittent or on demand. Maintenance PPI therapy is well tolerated for up to 10 years of continuous use. Furthermore, tachyphylaxis does not occur during long-term maintenance PPI therapy. Previous concerns about risks of long-term PPI therapy in Heliobacter pylori-negative or H. pylori-positive patients have not materialized, while no cases of intestinal metaplasia with dysplasia or adenocarcinoma were found. The choice between medical and surgical therapy should depend upon informed patient preference. The optimal candidate for antireflux surgery is a young patient, with typical GORD symptoms, with erosive oesophagitis, with previous complete symptom resolution on acid-suppression therapy and unable to undergo continuous therapy, or alternatively in patients with regurgitation predominating over heartburn as long as the surgical procedures are conducted by an expert surgical team. Endoscopic therapy for erosive GORD should currently be regarded as experimental. The endoscopic procedures are safe, although they remain untested in patients with severe erosive oesophagitis and/or significant hiatal hernia.

Indexed as

Anti-Ulcer AgentsDecision TreesDrug Administration ScheduleEndoscopyGastroesophageal RefluxHumansProton Pump InhibitorsSurvivorsAnti-Ulcer AgentsProton Pump Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID16335859
OpenAlexW33067898

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