For patients with refractory GERD who do not have esophagitis, possible etiologies include nocturnal gastric acid breakthrough, nonacid GER, missed GER or other diseases such as achalasia ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Proton pump inhibitors administered twice daily do not provide complete nocturnal acid suppression. Acid breakthrough, or decrease in intragastric pH to <4 for an hour or longer ...

Although these agents could potentially achieve complete gastric acid suppression, risks may be associated with this level of suppression, including enteric infections and malabsorption of ...

In our experience, the addition of bedtime H2RAs is clinically effective in controlling nocturnal acid breakthrough and GERD symptoms. The final step in gastric acid secretion is the exchange of ...

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You’re just about to doze off into a restful slumber when it starts: the nausea, fiery chest pains, and scorching burps that ...

But for the nocturnal hunter, it has paid off. While most birds are active during the day, many insects and around 70 percent of mammals are nocturnal, coming out at night to forage for food and ...

In the patients with gastric ulceration the relapse rate was 86 per cent, and those with chronic duodenal ulcer showed only 20 per cent complete recovery. No surgical attack on chronic peptic ...

A report about nocturnal animals and birds and their adaptations. The report shows footage of barn owls, mice, hedgehogs, bats, badgers, moles and worms. Students could become nature detectives ...

An art-gallery owner reads a novel written by her ex-husband, and becomes greatly disturbed by the possibility that the story was inspired by their marriage.

The nocturnal is a navigational instrument that was first invented in the 16th Century. By focusing on the stars it can estimate the time to within 10-15 minutes. The outer edge of the instrument ...

Robert Smith of The Cure has claimed he’s training his sheep to be nocturnal (Picture: Barry Brecheisen/WireImage) Robert Smith, frontman of The Cure, has claimed that he is the owner of ‘the ...