DECEMBER 13, 2016

BE Recurrence Rates Raise Question Of Monitoring After Eradication

The recurrence of Barrett’s esophagus (BE), one of the most common conditions that gastroenterologists encounter, in some patients after they have had a successful eradication therapy calls for postoperative surveillance, according to a poster on recurrence rates of metaplasia and dysplasia after an endoscopic eradication.

“The guidelines tell you how to find the problem, but we don’t have very good guidelines on how to survey those patients after they complete the