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Medical treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis.


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SUBMITTER: Franciosi JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358040 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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<h4>Background</h4>Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic antigen-mediated eosinophilic inflammatory disease isolated to the esophagus. As a clinicopathologic disorder, a diagnosis of EoE requires a constellation of clinical symptoms of esophageal dysfunction and histologic findings (at least 15 eosinophils/high-powered microscope field (eos/hpf)). Current guidelines no longer require the failure of response to proton pump inhibitor medications to establish a diagnosis of EoE, but continue  ...[more]

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