Abstract. Risk factors for complications of GERD include older age, male gender, white race, abdominal obesity, and tobacco use. The symptoms of GERD and the symptoms of reflux esophagitis, functional dyspepsia and gastroparesis largely overlap, which creates difficulties for the management of patients.
Unfortunately, in the available literature there is little data on the use of laser, and even then, they mainly relate to biopsy under the control of the esophagus with volumetric laser endomicroscopy and laser coagulation. There are studies evaluating possible endoscopic treatment of esophageal tissue with circular laser irradiation. However, the proposed photothermal therapy may be a valid endoscopic treatment method using circumferential irradiation and mechanical dilatation only for Barrett's esophagus (Tran VN, 2018; Sharma P, 2020), while a method to prevent reflux esophagitis or reduce the symptoms of inflammation is needed
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