The ACG updated guidelines for GERD to include pharmacologic, lifestyle, surgical and endoscopic management. The changes were published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
“The ethos of the new GERD guidelines is to synthesize the highest quality, yet still practical, recommendations for the diagnosis and management of patients with GERD,” Philip O. Katz, MD, MACG, professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, told Healio Gastroenterology. “They have been developed for the clinician to enhance their opportunity to provide the best possible evidence-based patient care, using the full menu of diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions for these often-complex patients. We hope you find them useful in your everyday practice.”