REFLUX ASPIRATION AND LUNG DISEASE

1. Diagnostic Confusion Through the Ages
2. An Overview of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
3. Chemical Composition of Refluxate
4. Pathological Processes
5. Pathophysiology in the Lung
6. Effect of Reflux on Cough Sensitivity and Bronchial Responsiveness
7. Questionnaire Diagnosis of Airways Reflux
8. Pepsin Detection as a Diagnostic Test for Reflux Disease
9. Imaging Reflux
10. High Resolution Oesophageal Manometry in the Investigation of Unexplained Cough
11. Cough Monitoring in Reflux Lung Disease
12. The Relationship Between Asthma and Gastro-Esophageal Reflux
13. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) and COPD
14. Gastro Oesophageal Reflux and Bronchiectasis
15. Reflux Aspiration and Cystic Fibrosis
16. Gastroesophageal Reflux and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
17. Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) and Chronic Cough
18. Reflux and Aspiration: Their Presumed Role in Chronic Cough and the Development of End-Stage Lung Disease
19. Reflux and Aspiration in the Intensive Care Unit
20. Incidence and Risk of Aspiration in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
21. Reflux in Pediatrics
22. Aspiration in the Elderly
23. Acid Suppression for Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Benefits and Risks
24. Reflux Inhibitors and Prokinetics
25. Macrolides, Reflux and Respiratory Disease
26. Inhaled, Nebulised and Oral Bronchodilators in Reflux Disease
27. Speech Pathology: Reflux Aspiration and Lung Diseases
28. Anti Reflux Surgery

Reflux is an important factor in many different lung diseases and its manifestations are under recognised. The pathological basis of reflux has recently undergone major changes and clinicians' understanding has improved with diagnostic technology. This book aims to educate and inform professionals of these latest developments and give practical advice to their application in the clinical setting. It contains contributions written by world experts discussing their latest research, ideas and future directions in this fast moving area. Pharmacological, surgical and behavioural techniques in the prevention and treatment of reflux are discussed in each chapter. Special circumstances, such as eosinophilic inflammation in relation to asthma, cough and eosinophilic bronchitis are also highlighted. This book brings together the various different strands of research in reflux in relation to airways disease, to provide readers with a board summary of how the different but overlapping areas impacted by reflux affect the respiratory tract.

Features
• The first comprehensive overview of reflux in relation to respiratory disease
• Provides easy cross reference of diagnosis and therapy aiding patient management
• Mechanism of reflux related to airways disease are explored in depth

Authors
• Professor Alyn Morice was trained at Cambridge University with the clinical attachment at St George’s Hospital, London. Having obtained his MRCP, he undertook research in asthma at St Mary’s Hospital, London studying the clinical pharmacology of airway nerves. During this time, a patient presented with an unexplained cough which was the first observation of ACE inhibitor cough and subsequently led to the demonstration of the Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome in a Lancet paper of 1987. Professor Morice was then appointed Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology at Cambridge University and started a lifelong interest in cough challenge and its role in dissecting the physiology of airway nerves. Appointed as Senior Lecturer and then Reader at the University of Sheffield, Professor Morice continued to study both the in vitro and in vivo pharmacology of the airway and pulmonary nerves. He founded the first dedicated Cough Clinic in the United Kingdom, which continues to see over 400 new patients per annum and has a national referral pattern.
Professor Morice moved to Hull in 1998 to take up the Foundation Chair in Respiratory Medicine. The aetiology of chronic cough was established by the development of the Hull Airways Reflux Questionnaire; a validated instrument demonstrating that cough hypersensitivity is usually caused by aspiration of gaseous non acid reflux. The technique of high resolution oesophageal manometry has revolutionised our understanding of the pathophysiology basis of airway reflux.
No less than five new drugs are currently in development and being studied in our Clinical Trials Unit. The importance of reflux, aspiration and lung disease has reached a zenith.
• Professor Peter Dettmar is the former global Research and Development Director - Gastrointestinals for Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare (UK) Limited with extensive experience in running product development programs and clinical trials and over thirty five years’ experience of the pharmaceutical industry. He has an Honorary Professorship with the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Nottingham, UK, and was Adjunct Professor and Director of Research at the Centre for Voice and Swallowing Disorders, Department of Otolaryngology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre, Winston-Salem, USA. He has a PhD. in pharmacology from the University of Bradford, UK and is a named inventor on over 40 patents, has supervised more than 70 successful PhD. studentships and has authored or co-authored over 530 scientific publications. He has a special interest in reflux disease, pepsin, bile acids, mucosal protection, salivary mucins, bioadhesion, H. pylori, nutrition, dietary fibres/functional foods, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), polymers/biopolymers, cell biology and has established international research and clinical networks that are core to research in these areas. He has organised national and international conferences and workshops including a series of meetings on reflux disease and symposia on human pepsin and gives numerous national and international lectures. He has established and is the Managing Director of Technostics Limited and RD Biomed Limited two innovative pharmaceutical development and diagnostic companies based at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham , East Yorkshire, UK.