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SUBMITTER: Ang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5075954 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ang Daphne D How Choon How CH Ang Tiing Leong TL
Singapore medical journal 20161001 10
About one-third of patients with suspected gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD) do not respond symptomatically to proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). Many of these patients do not suffer from GERD, but may have underlying functional heartburn or atypical chest pain. Other causes of failure to respond to PPIs include inadequate acid suppression, non-acid reflux, oesophageal hypersensitivity, oesophageal dysmotility and psychological comorbidities. Functional oesophageal tests can exclude cardiac a ...[more]