The city-based Asian Institute of Gastroenterology today claimed that it successfully used a new technique for treatment of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), usually termed as acidity. ARMS is a simple endoscopic treatment, which can be done as the outpatient with low complications. It was done on 40 patients in Japan with 99 percent success. Anti-reflux mucosectomy (ARMS), invented by of Tokyo University, was recently used for the treatment of a young patient – the first time in the world outside Japan.
Chief of gastroenterology and faculty of Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, told reporters that the patient, a young nurse of a government hospital who had refractory acidity, was completely cured. The procedure took 28 minutes. He said they modified the technique to bring down the cost, which is one-tenth of the cost in Japan. This novel technique would revolutionize the…
