Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)/Nonerosive Reflux Disease (NERD)/Erosive Esophagitis (EE) (Am J Gastroenterol 2005;100:190-200) DEFINITION: GERD: Pathologic condition of chronic symptoms or histopathologic injury via percolation of gastroduodenal contents into the…
Gastropathy/Chronic Gastritis GASTROPATHY Definition: Any disease or inflammation of the stomach Etiologies: Increased frequency with age; Approximately 60% of adults have histological evidence of nonspecific gastritis In general, chronic dyspepsia…
Gastroparesis & Dumping Syndrome (Gastroenterology 2004;127:1589-91 & 1592-1622. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2006;18:263-83) GASTROPARESIS Definition: Motility disorder of the stomach, often associated with other intestinal motility disorders; Results from impairment of normal…
Gastric Polyps & Thickened Gastric Folds DEFINITIONS: Gastric Polyp: any abnormal growth or epithelial tissue arising from the otherwise smooth surface of the stomach Sessile or pedunculated polyps: Hyperplastic: 70-90%…
Gastric Cancer (N Engl J Med 1995;333:32-41) DEFINITION: Cancer of the stomach; Adenocarcinoma is classified, via Lauren in 1965, into: Intestinal variant: arise from gastric mucus cells that have undergone…
Esophageal Infections Odynophagia, and to a lesser degree, dysphagia are most common symptoms Others: Nausea, dysgeusia, heartburn, chest pain, fever, bleeding, hiccups FUNGAL: CANDIDA ALBICANS Most common cause of infectious…
Esophageal Cancer (Gastroenterology 2005;128:1468-70. Am J Gastroenterol 1999;94:20-29) DEFINITION: Cancer of the esophagus EPIDEMIOLOGY: Incidence <10/100,000 However, the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma has increased sharply in U.S. The incidence of…
Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis DEFINITION: A rare, nonparasitic inflammatory disease of the GI tract with various degrees of eosinophilic infiltration anywhere in the tubular intestinal tract and biliary tree in the absence…
Eosinophilic Esophagitis DEFINITION: Characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the esophagus presumably due to allergic or idiopathic causes EPIDEMIOLOGY: Not well studied, but reported in several countries in the world Majority…
Dysphagia/Odynophagia (Gastroenterology. 1999;117:229-32 & 233-54) DEFINITION: Difficulty swallowing and passing food from the mouth or esophagus to the stomach Divided into: Oropharyngeal or Esophageal (See Etiologies below) Globus (hystericus): feeling…
