Patients with eosinophilic esophagitis symptoms may benefit from gastric emptying studies

Gastric emptying studies may benefit patients with persistent symptoms of eosinophilic esophagitis who do not respond to treatment, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.These studies may enable clinicians to consider delayed gastric emptying and other concomitant diagnoses, Emad Khosh-Hemmat, BS, a clinical research coordinator at the University of California, San Diego, at the time of the study and a current student at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote in the study.The study involved 84 patients aged 2 toRead More

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