Risk of progression to eosinophilic esophagitis in patients with asymptomatic esophageal eosinophilia: A retrospective pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

As the number of patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) has increased worldwide, the likelihood of diagnosing esophageal eosinophilia (EE) in screening endoscopy has also increased. Many of these EE patients do not display any symptoms (i.e. they display asymptomatic EE: aEE), and the risk of aEE patients developing EoE has yet to be demonstrated.

Methods

A total of 62 250 cases were found in the endoscopic registries of two digestive disease centers in the context of gastric cancer screening from April 2016 to August 2018, and these were reviewed.

Results

Thirty-seven aEE patients (0.059%) were found in the registries, and the histories of endoscopic findings and symptoms were successfully traced for 29 of them. While 11 aEE (37.9%) patients

SUBMITTER: Ishibashi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7273718 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature