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Efficacy of long-term maintenance therapy with 10-mg vonoprazan for proton pump inhibitor-resistant reflux esophagitis

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Background

To investigate the efficacy of long-term (52 weeks) maintenance therapy by 10-mg vonoprazan administration for proton pump inhibitor-resistant reflux esophagitis continued from the preceding study.

Methods

Sixteen patients with proton pump inhibitor-resistant reflux esophagitis (mean age 70.9 years, eight males) in whom endoscopic healing was achieved by 20-mg vonoprazan administration for 4 weeks and maintenance of remission was maintained by 10-mg vonoprazan administration for 8 weeks were enrolled. Endoscopy was performed at 52 weeks after the initiation of maintenance therapy with 10-mg vonoprazan to evaluate whether there was any recurrence of reflux esophagitis. Changes in the gastric mucosa were investigated at 52 weeks. Symptoms were assessed using the frequency scale for the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease and the fast gastrin level at 8 and 52 weeks following the maintenance therapy.

Results

Endoscopic remission was maintained at 52 weeks in 15 (93.8%) of the 16 patients with proton pump inhibitor-resistant reflux esophagitis. One patient relapsed with grade C of reflux esophagitis. There were no significant differences in the symptom score at 8 and 52 weeks, nor the gastrin level at 8 and 52 weeks. There was no change in the stomach on endoscopy at 52 weeks.

Conclusion

Long-term maintenance therapy by 10-mg vonoprazan administration is very effective for proton pump inhibitor-resistant reflux esophagitis patients in whom endoscopic healing was maintained by 8 weeks maintenance therapy with 10-mg vonoprazan administration.

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The authors thank Ms. Satoko Nishimura for administrative assistance.

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Nippon Medical School, Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-5, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8603, Japan

    Tomohide Tanabe, Shintaro Hoshino, Noriyuki Kawami, Yoshimasa Hoshikawa, Yuriko Hanada, Nana Takenouchi, Osamu Goto, Mitsuru Kaise & Katsuhiko Iwakiri

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Katsuhiko Iwakiri has received lecture fees from Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The remaining authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Tanabe, T., Hoshino, S., Kawami, N. et al. Efficacy of long-term maintenance therapy with 10-mg vonoprazan for proton pump inhibitor-resistant reflux esophagitis. Esophagus 16, 377–381 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10388-019-00676-x

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