ArticleDigestive diseases and sciences2026
Low Yield of Surveillance Endoscopy in Severe Oesophagitis: A 1700-Patient Retrospective Cohort Study.
Article in Digestive diseases and sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
13 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundGuidelines recommend re-evaluation of severe oesophagitis to detect occult malignancy and Barrett's oesophagus (BE), but the utility and resource implications of this practice are unclear.
aimsTo assess the diagnostic yield, predictors, and resource implications of surveillance endoscopy in patients with severe (LA Grade C/D) oesophagitis.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study of 1700 index cases of severe oesophagitis over 18.5 years. Surveillance outcomes were assessed using endoscopy and histology databases. Univariate and multivariate logit regressions were used to explore associations with malignancy, BE and surveillance.
resultsOnly 6 oesophageal cancers (0.35%) were diagnosed, 3 at index. Of 717 re-evaluated patients (42.2%), just one malignancy was detected on surveillance. BE was newly identified in 48 patients (6.7% of re-evaluations), with no occult dysplasia found. No malignancies were diagnosed in the 980 patients not re-evaluated. The total cost of surveillance was €580,215.
conclusionsRoutine endoscopic surveillance for LA Grade C/D oesophagitis had a low diagnostic yield and high cost. These findings suggest that current guideline recommendations may need revision in favour of risk-stratified follow-up to optimise healthcare resource use.
Indexed as
Identifiers
40794234What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.