Clinical and endoscopic peculiarities of gastroesophageal reflux disease during bronchial asthma combined with chronic opisthorchosis

Abstract

The results of the study of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) clinico-endoscopic peculiarities in 318 patients with bronchial asthma (BA) of different severity degree, combined with chronic opisthorchosis or without it, have been cited in the present article. It has been revealed an often incidence of GERD in BA patients and GERD frequency increased as the disease severer. At that the GERD clinical manifestation have been observed more frequently than the reflux-esophagitis had been discovered by endoscopic ways. GERD structure during BA has been presented. More frequent GERD with BA combined with chronic opisthorchosis has been discovered than in patients without associated parasitic invasion.

Keywords

• gastroesophageal reflux disease
• bronchial asthma
• chronic opisthorchosis