Practical Manual of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Marcelo F. Vela, MD, MSCR, Associate Professor of Medicine, is the director of the gastrointestinal motility program at Baylor Clinic and the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA. Dr. Vela is a nationally recognized specialist in esophageal diseases, swallowing disorders, and gastrointestinal motility.

Dr John E. Pandolfino is Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. Dr Pandolfino has published extensively on gastrointestinal complications in surgery, pH monitoring of esophageal acid exposure, clinical use of esophageal manometry, and therapies and management of disorders of gastrointestinal motility. His research interests include esophageal physiology, gastroesophageal reflux disease, swallowing disorders, and esophageal diseases.

Joel E Richter MD is Richard L Evans Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He specializes in the diagnosis and management of, and performs clinical research on, esophageal diseases including Barrett's oesophagus, GERD (including its extraesophageal presentation), achalasia and other motility disorders, non-cardiac chest pain, dysphagia and the effects that H. pylori has on the oesophagus. He has published more than 500 articles, chapters and books. He is the current co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology and past President of the American College of Gastroenterology and World Organization for Specialized Studies on Diseases of the Esophagus.
Dr Richter has 338 articles on PubMed, and is editor of the following books: Ambulatory Esophageal Ph Monitoring: Practical Approach and Clinical Applications; Dysphagia: Diagnosis and Treatment; Gerd: Current Issues and Controversies; Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2nd edition (May 2012); The Esophagus, 5th edition (published March 2012).

Foreword

Preface

Part 1: GERD Overview

1 GERD Pathophysiology
 Pim W. Weijenborg, Boudewijn F. Kessing, André J.P.M. Smout

2 GERD: Epidemiology, Impact on quality of life, Heath Economics Implications
Nimish Vakil

3 Overview of Tools for the Diagnosis of GERD
Marcelo Vela

4 Overview of GERD Treatments
Sabine Roman, Peter J. Kahrilas

5 GERD Treatment: Side Effects and Complications of Acid Suppression
David A. Johnson

6 GERD Treatment: Side Effects and Complications of Fundoplication
Joel E. Richter

Part 2: GERD: Management of Specific Clinical Presentations 

7 Evaluation and Management of Refractory GERD
John A. Pandolfino, Sabine Roman

8 Functional Heartburn
Stanislas Bruley des Varannes, Frank Zerbib and Jean Paul Galmiche

9 The Role of Acid Reflux in Non Cardiac Chest Pain
Cristina Almansa, Sami R. Achem

10 Laryngopharyngeal Reflux
Robert T. Kavitt, Michael F. Vaezi

11 GERD-Related Cough
Etsuro Yazaki, Ryuichi Shimono and Daniel Sifrim

12 GERD and Sleep
Tiberiu Hershcovici, Ronnie Fass

13 Aerophagia and Belching
Arjan Bredenoord

14 Dysphagia and GERD
Donald O. Castell, Erick R. Singh

15 Role of Treating GERD in Patients with Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Kumar Krishnan, Ikuo Hirano

16 Helicobacter plyori and GERD
Maria Pina Dore, David Y. Graham

Part 3:  Barrett's Esophagus 

17 Barrett's Esophagus: Diagnosis and Surveillance
 Gary W. Falk

18 Barrett's Esophagus: Treatment Options
Jianmin Tian, Kenneth Wang

Index, XX

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