Voorbeelden van esophagitis

• Between 10% and 20% of patients with more than occasional dyspepsia have ulcers, and approximately 10% have reflux esophagitis, while less than 1% have cancer.

• In summary, antacids provide better symptom relief than placebo in reflux disease, even when esophagitis is not present.

• He used opioid, 20 mg/day of morphine hydrochloride, for pain of esophagitis by irradiation, with taking prochlorperazine as an antiemetic drug.

• The strategy of using empirical eradication therapy is not recommended given the controversy involving the potential development of esophagitis and the unstudied potential for antibiotic resistance developing in the community.

• Other non-acid related causes of peptic strictures include infectious esophagitis, ingestion of chemical irritant, pill irritation, and radiation.

• Further, only half of the patients with increased esophageal acid exposure will have esophagitis.

• In addition, young children with eosinophilic esophagitis may present with feeding difficulties.

• It is likely to present with a single, deep ulcer as opposed to the multiple shallow ulcers seen in herpes esophagitis.