PRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 102 No. 6 June 2009
The Effects of Acid Regurgitation and Dyspepsia on the Treatment
of Patients with laryngopharyngeal Reflux Disease (LPRD)
Nobuo Ohta, Takashi Nasu, Tomoo Watanabe, Yasuhiro Abe,
Daisuke Noda, Akihiro Ishida, Syuji Koike and Masaru Aoyagi
(Yamagata University School of Medicine)
The clinical effects of Rabeprazole on patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (LPRD) were investigated by comparing the frequency of GERD symptoms (FSSG), laryngopharyngeal reflux symptom score (RSS), and objective laryngopharyngeal reflux finding score (RFS) before and after treatment. We found that the scores after treatment were significantly lower than those before treatment.
These findings indicate that Rabeprazole is useful for the treatment of LPRD.
Key words :aryngopharyngeal reflux disease (LPRD), frequency scale for symptoms of GERD (FSSG),
laryngopharyngeal reflux symptom score (RSS),laryngopharyngeal reflux objective finding score (RFS)