Journal
HEALTHCARE
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10112183
Keywords
esophagus; non-erosive reflux disease (NERD); gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD); eosinophilic esophagitis; endoscopic diagnosis; narrow-band imaging; image enhanced endoscopy; magnification endoscopy; endocytoscopy
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This article introduces the application of advanced endoscopy techniques in the diagnosis of esophageal inflammatory diseases. Studies have shown that advanced endoscopy techniques can improve the diagnostic performance of white-light endoscopy in non-erosive reflux disease and eosinophilic esophagitis.
Advanced endoscopy (AVE) techniques include image-enhanced endoscopy methods, such as narrow-band imaging (NBI), and types of microscopic endoscopy, such as endocytoscopy. In the esophagus, AVE first showed diagnostic utility in the diagnosis of superficial esophageal cancer and was then applied to inflammatory disease. This review focuses on non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), which sometimes show no abnormal findings on standard white light endoscopy alone. Studies have demonstrated that advanced endoscopy, including NBI magnification endoscopy and endocytoscopy, improved the diagnostic performance of white-light endoscopy alone for NERD and EoE. In this review, we explain why advanced endoscopy is needed for the diagnosis of these esophageal inflammatory diseases, summarize the study results, and discuss future perspectives.
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