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SUBMITTER: Franciosi JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358040 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Franciosi James P JP Gordon Morris M Sinopoulou Vassiliki V Dellon Evan S ES Gupta Sandeep K SK Reed Craig C CC Gutiérrez-Junquera Carolina C Venkatesh Rajitha D RD Erwin Elizabeth A EA Egiz Abdullah A Elleithy Assem A Mougey Edward B EB
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20230720
<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]