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Lansoprazole for Maintenance of Remission of Erosive Oesophagitis

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Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease,which is experienced daily by a significant proportion of individuals, may result in serious sequelae such as erosive oesophagitis. Short-term treatment with acid antisecretory therapy (a proton pump inhibitor or a histamine H2 receptor antagonist) is highly effective in healing the erosive oesophagitis lesion. However, numerous studies confirm that unless maintenance therapy is initiated virtually all patientswill experience oesophagitis relapse within 1 year, as well as an increasing severity of oesophagitis and risk for complications such as Barrett’s oesophagus and adenocarcinoma

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English

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Drugs 2002; 62 (8): 1173-1184

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