Author Interviews, Gastrointestinal Disease, Surgical Research / 24.01.2017
Non-Surgical Stretta Therapy For Recalcitrant GERD
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr. Mark Noar
Director of The Heartburn and Reflux Study Center
Towson, MD
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: The background for this study was developed out of a need to know whether the Stretta procedure was effective in both the short and long-term in all forms of reflux. This included standard refluxing patients who had never had surgery but also in the subpopulation of patients who had recurring reflux after having had reflux corrective surgery. The question to be answered was whether the Stretta procedure would be less effective, more effective, or just as effective in the patient who had had prior surgery compared to patients who did not have surgery.
The main findings were that independent of whether a patient had had surgery for the correction of reflux or just had standard reflux without prior surgery, the Stretta procedure was equally effective in all patient subgroups both in the short-term and the long-term.
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