Yasuhisa Sakata, Kazunari Tominaga, Mototsugu Kato, Hiroshi Takeda, Yasuyuki Shimoyama, Toshihisa Takeuchi, Ryuichi Iwakiri, Kenji Furuta, Kouichi Sakurai, Takeo Odaka, Hiroaki Kusunoki, Akihito Nagahara, Katsuhiko Iwakiri, Takahisa Furuta, Kazunari Murakami, Hiroto Miwa, Yoshikazu Kinoshita, Ken Haruma, Shin'ichi Takahashi, Sumio Watanabe, Kazuhide Higuchi, Kazuma Fujimoto, Motoyasu Kusano, Tetsuo Arakawa
BACKGROUND: The incidence and severity of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in Japan tends to increase in elderly women. Rikkunshito (RKT), a traditional Japanese medicine, acts as a prokinetic agent and improves gastric emptying and gastric accommodation. Our previous prospective randomized placebo-controlled study showed that RKT combined with a standard-dose of rabeprazole (RPZ) significantly improved the acid-related dysmotility symptoms (ARD) in elderly patients with proton pump inhibitor (PPI)-refractory non-erosive reflux disease (NERD)...
July 2, 2014: BMC Gastroenterology