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Eosinophilic Esophagitis

"Eosinophilic Esophagitis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Chronic ESOPHAGITIS characterized by esophageal mucosal EOSINOPHILIA. It is diagnosed when an increase in EOSINOPHILS are present over the entire esophagus. The reflux symptoms fail to respond to PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS treatment, unlike in GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE. The symptoms are associated with IgE-mediated hypersensitivity to food or inhalant allergens.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Eosinophilic Esophagitis" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Eosinophilic Esophagitis" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 87 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2023
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.