Gastroesophageal reflux disease : Clinical and endoscopic correlates

Abstract EN

This prospective study considered 146 patients attended the endoscopy units in Baghdad Teaching Hospital and the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Teaching Hospital in the Medical City in Baghdad from August 2000 till August 2001.

They were diagnosed as sufferers of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

The study tried to differentiate on base of the clinical presentation between patients with GERD who have endoscopic peptic esophagitis and those who are free from this complication.

It was found that dysphagia has a statistically significant association with peptic esophagitis while age, male gender, heartburn, noncardiac chest pain, smoking and alcoholism have no significance for the intended differentiation despite the observation that, aging, male gender and smoking were determinants of higher grades of peptic esophagitis in case they are present.