Specialists at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC) have performed for the first time in Israel an innovative endoscopic procedure that successfully treats patients suffering from heartburn acid reflux and can come instead of surgery.
The safe and innovative treatment has been researched and approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and was recently included in the guidelines for the treatment of reflux by the American College of Gastroenterology.
Acid reflux occurs when the sphincter muscle at the lower end of the esophagus relaxes at the wrong time, allowing stomach acid to back up into the food tube.Â
This condition can cause heartburn and other signs and symptoms, but when it becomes chronic, it can lead to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), in which the acid irritates the lining of the esophagus. People with GERD have a slightly higher risk of getting pre-malignant and even malignant adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
