METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE

摘要

A novel methodology for diagnosing and treating gastroesophageal reflux disease is provided. These methodologies are based on the discovery of a new disease mechanism called hereinafter "reflux carditis", which is a novel mechanistic view of reflux disease that recognizes cardiac mucosa, which has heretofore been regarded as a normal epithelium in the stomach and an abnormal epithelium in the esophagus, as an abnormal mucosa in both the esophagus and stomach.