Esophageal diseases

摘要

At Digestive Disease Week (DDW) this year (3-6 May, Chicago, Illinois), investigators gathered from around the world to share discoveries and experience in esophageal diseases. Presentations ranged from advances in endo-scopic techniques to noninvasive disease stratification and results from long-term cohort studies. This review discusses results from seven seminal studies in esophageal diseases reported at DDW. Although this work is impressive in its scope and potential for clinical impact, selection of these studies as the "most important" is admittedly somewhat arbitrary, as numerous centers contributed a wealth of new information. With that caveat, below we present our review of the most notable abstracts in esophageal diseases from DDW 2014.