Advancements on therapy of gastroesophageal reflux cough
- VernacularTitle:胃食管反流性咳嗽的治疗进展
- Author:
Yi WANG
;
Shengliang ZHU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Gastroesophageal reflux disease;
Cough;
Medicine;
Surgery;
Integrative medicine
- From:
Journal of Medical Postgraduates
2014;(12):1328-1331
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Gastroesophageal reflux cough (GERC) is a special type of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and one of the common causes of chronic cough .The therapies of GERC include general treatment , medication and surgery .At present antireflux medicine is the major therapy to GERC .A lot of new kinds of medicine have being developed and applied in addition to antacid and gastric motility improver .The short-term and long-term effects of antireflux surgery have nott been confirmed due to the lack of reliable prospective randomized controlled studies .The advancements on therapy of GERC are reviewed in this paper .
