Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Oesophageal Diseases

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for oesophageal diseases.
Reviewed October 2011

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Title:   Nitrates for achalasia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Achalasia is a condition where the lower part of the oesophagus leading to the stomach is unable to relax normally after swallowing. Food may become stuck there rather than going through into the stomach. Although the cause of achalasia is not known, it...
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Non-surgical interventions for eosinophilic esophagitis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) is emerging globally as a significant cause of upper gastrointestinal disease in people with clinical symptoms of esophageal disease including a typical appearance of the esophagus and an increased number of eosinophil whit...
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Preoperative chemotherapy for resectable thoracic esophageal cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cancer of the esophagus is often not discovered until it is in quite an advanced state. This means that even removing the tumor by surgery is not very successful and many people die within five years. Chemotherapy (cancer fighting drugs such as cisplati...
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Surgery versus radical endotherapies for early cancer and high grade dysplasia in Barrett's oesophagus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This Cochrane review has indicated that there are no randomised controlled trials to compare management options in this vital area, therefore trials should be undertaken as a matter of urgency. Current use of endotherapies in the care of patients with e...
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Emergency sclerotherapy versus vasoactive drugs for bleeding oesophageal varices in cirrhotic patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Variceal bleeding in cirrhosis is associated with a high risk of death. Although banding ligation of varices is considered the choice for endoscopic treatment, emergency sclerotherapy is frequently used particularly where ligation is not available or wh...
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Cisapride treatment for gastro-oesophageal reflux in children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Gastro-oesophageal reflux is the movement of stomach contents back into the oesophagus. A ring of smooth muscle (sphincter) at the lower end of the oesophagus near the stomach usually prevents this regurgitation. Relaxation of the sphincter, ineffective...
Title:   Short-term treatment with proton pump inhibitors, H2-receptor antagonists and prokinetics for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease-like symptoms and endoscopy negative reflux disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients with only mild or intermittent heartburn may have adequate relief with lifestyle modifications and antacids, although other options are available. The two most commonly used drugs for treatment of heartburn are H2-receptor antagonists (H2RAs) a...
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Fundoplication versus post-operative medication for gastro-oesophageal reflux in children with neurological impairment undergoing gastrostomy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Children with cerebral palsy often have oral motor impairment and need help with eating and drinking. Frequently this entails surgery to place a feeding tube (gastrostomy) directly into their stomach. They may also be found to have gastro-oesophageal re...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy versus nasogastric tube feeding for adults with swallowing disturbances
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A number of conditions compromise the transport of food along the digestive tract. Patients with swallowing disturbances can develop low nutritional status, which affects their recovery from illness, surgery, and injury. Conditions associated with swall...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Preoperative radiotherapy for esophageal carcinoma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   If the tumour has not spread, surgery is usually the standard treatment for cancer of the esophagus (the tube between the throat and stomach). Surgery to remove the cancer can help people to live longer, but the prognosis is still very poor. Trials have...
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Chinese herbal medicines for esophageal cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chinese herbal medicines are widely used as adjunct therapy to chemo- or radiotherapy in patients being treated for cancer of the esophagus. As yet there is no evidence that herbal medicines are effective or not in this role. The authors performed a sys...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Treatment for Barrett's oesophagus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   One of the two main types of oesophageal (gullet) cancer, oesophageal adenocarcinoma, is rapidly increasing in incidence in the western world. The prognosis for patients treated for oesophageal adenocarcinoma is appalling with fewer than 15% of individu...
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Acupuncture for dysphagia in acute stroke
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Better designed clinical trials are needed to prove whether acupuncture is effective for treating swallowing difficulties in patients with stroke. Patients who have swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) as a result of their stroke are less likely to survi...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Somatostatin analogues for acute bleeding oesophageal varices
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cirrhosis of the liver is a chronic, progressing disease that is most commonly caused by excessive use of alcohol or by hepatitis C infection. The liver tissue is replaced by connective tissue, which leads to loss of liver function. People with cirrhosi...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Feed thickener for newborn infants with gastro-oesophageal reflux
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is no current evidence from randomised trials to show that adding feed thickeners to milk for newborn infants is effective in treating gastro-oesophageal reflux. Many newborn babies (in the first four weeks of life) suffer from gastro-oesophageal ...
Date:   Apr 2004
Title:   Metoclopramide, thickened feedings, and positioning for gastro-oesophageal reflux in children under two years
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Gastro-esophageal reflux (GER), regurgitation if it reaches the mouth, is a condition which frustrates many parents, and to which there are a variety of treatments. This review found in developmentally normal children aged one month to two years that th...
Date:   Mar 2004
Title:   Terlipressin for acute esophageal variceal hemorrhage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Esophageal varices are abnormal dilatations of veins in the lower part of the swallowing tube (oesophagus) that may develop in patients with chronic liver damage (cirrhosis). Bleeding from these varices is a life threatening complication with mortality ...
Date:   Oct 2002
Title:   Gastro-oesophageal reflux treatment for asthma in adults and children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with asthma also often have gastro-oesophageal reflux (where acid from the stomach comes back up the gullet (esophagus)). Reflux is very common in people with asthma. It may be a trigger for asthma, or alternatively, asthma may trigger reflux. Tr...
Date:   Sep 2002
Title:   Non-pharmacological therapies for dysphagia in Parkinson's disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review compared the benefits of swallowing therapy versus placebo (sham therapy) or no therapy for swallowing disorders in Parkinson's disease. Relevant trials were identified by electronic searches of 21 medical literature databases, various regis...
Date:   Nov 2000
Title:   Interventions for dysphagia in acute stroke
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Difficulties in swallowing occur in up to half of people experiencing a non-fatal stroke. Although some spontaneously recover this function in the first two weeks, many continue to have problems that interfere with physical function, nutrition, recovery...
Date:   Jun 1999

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