Advances in Treatment of Refractory Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease / 胃肠病学

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common gastrointestinal disease and its incidence is increased in recent years in China.As the main treatment of GERD, proton pump inhibitors (PPI) has stable effects and high safety in long-term application.However, around 30% GERD patients had poor symptom control under standard PPI treatment, even developed into refractory GERD, seriously affecting the quality of life.Therefore, the treatment of GERD is a difficult clinical problem and multiple therapeutic modalities have emerged, including drug therapy, endoscopic treatment and surgery.In this paper, we reviewed the advances in study on treatment of refractory GERD.