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ArticleGeneral thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2009

Symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux disease after lung transplantation.

Ezequiel J Molina, Scott Short, Glen Monteiro, John P Gaughan, Mahender Macha

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Article in General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ezequiel J MolinaDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Scott Short
Glen Monteiro
John P Gaughan
Mahender Macha
Temple University · USUniversity of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeGastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is associated with allograft dysfunction after lung transplantation (LTX). We attempted to identify outcomes in LTX recipients with clinical evidence of GERD.

methodsRetrospective review of 162 LTX recipients at our institution between January 1994 and June 2006 was performed. GERD was confirmed in symptomatic patients by esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and/or esophagography. Occurrence of biopsy-proven obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) were analyzed. Kaplan-Meier analysis of survival and Cox proportional hazard analysis of risk factors were performed.

resultsGERD was diagnosed in 21 (13%) of patients, usually following LTX (71%). There was no difference in mean survival (1603 +/- 300 vs. 1422 +/- 131 days; log rank P > 0.05), or development of OB (5% vs. 6%, respectively; P > 0.05) in patients with GERD compared with patients without GERD. However, there was correlation between GERD and BOS (P = 0.01).

conclusionsSymptomatic GERD is increased following LTX. Patients with symptomatic GERD demonstrated an increased incidence of BOS, but survival was not affected in this study. More sensitive and specific diagnostic tools should be implemented in all LTX recipients to investigate the impact of symptomatic and silent GERD and thus improve outcomes after LTX.

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Graft SurvivalAdultBiopsyBronchiolitis ObliteransEndoscopy, Digestive SystemFemaleGastroesophageal RefluxHumansIncidenceKaplan-Meier EstimateLung TransplantationMaleMiddle AgedProportional Hazards ModelsRetrospective StudiesRisk Assessment

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