Eating Disorders are Prominent Among the Comorbidities of Eosinophilic Esophagitis in a U.S. Midwestern Children’s Hospital

Methods Retrospective diagnosis and procedure coding data in patients with EoE was queried and analyzed from the electronic health record at our institution. Comorbidities such as food impaction (FI, 2.8%/5.9%), esophageal strictures (ES, 1.0%/0%) and G-tube placement (1.5%/0%) were infrequent, with...

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Published inJournal of allergy and clinical immunology Vol. 141; no. 2; p. AB144
Main Authors Powell, Sara D., Teckman, Jeffrey H., Becker, Bradley A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published St. Louis Elsevier Inc 01.02.2018
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Autoimmune diseases
Children
Eating disorders
Electronic medical records
Esophageal diseases
Esophagitis
Esophagus
Gastrointestinal diseases
Leukocytes (eosinophilic)
United States > US
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Summary:Methods Retrospective diagnosis and procedure coding data in patients with EoE was queried and analyzed from the electronic health record at our institution. Comorbidities such as food impaction (FI, 2.8%/5.9%), esophageal strictures (ES, 1.0%/0%) and G-tube placement (1.5%/0%) were infrequent, with the FI frequency below published values (6.8%).
ISSN:0091-6749
1097-6825
DOI:10.1016/j.jaci.2017.12.460