Motion – All Patients with GERD Should Be Offered Once in a Lifetime Endoscopy: Arguments for the Motion

Proton pump inhibitor therapy is so successful at relieving reflux-related symptoms and healing esophageal erosions that it has supplanted formal diagnostic techniques, such as endoscopy and esophageal pH monitoring, for the initial management of gastroesophageal reflux disease. The response to antisecretory therapy is not indicative, however, of Barrett's esophagus or esophageal adenocarcinoma. Patients with prolonged and severe reflux …