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Overview

Ronnie Fass is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with notable subfields including surgery, gastroenterology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, physiology, and speech and hearing.

Their work covers several main topics, such as gastroesophageal reflux and treatments, eosinophilic esophagitis, esophageal and gastrointestinal pathology, Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies, esophageal cancer research and treatment, gastrointestinal motility and disorders, and dysphagia assessment and management.

Ronnie Fass has published extensively, with frequent appearances in the following academic journals:

  • The American Journal of Gastroenterology (51 publications)
  • Gastroenterology (43 publications)
  • Neurogastroenterology & Motility (18 publications)
  • Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology (11 publications)
  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (6 publications)

Their most cited recent papers include:

  • Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, 2021, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Esophageal motility disorders on high-resolution manometry: Chicago classification version 4.0©, 2020, Neurogastroenterology & Motility
  • ESNM/ANMS consensus paper: Diagnosis and management of refractory gastro-esophageal reflux disease, 2020, Neurogastroenterology & Motility
  • Updates to the modern diagnosis of GERD: Lyon consensus 2.0, 2023, Gut
  • The effect of sleep on gastrointestinal functioning in common digestive diseases, 2020, The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Frequent co-authors involved in numerous collaborations with Ronnie Fass include Fahmi Shibli, Gengqing Song, C. Prakash Gyawali, Sherif Saleh, and Sara Ghoneim.

Best Publications

  • Prevention and management of gastroesophageal varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis.

    Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao;Arun J. Sanyal;Norman D. Grace;William D. Carey

  • Esophageal motility disorders on high-resolution manometry: Chicago classification version 4.0©

    Rena Yadlapati;Peter J. Kahrilas;Mark R. Fox;Albert J. Bredenoord

  • Effectiveness of proton pump inhibitors in nonerosive reflux disease

    Bonnie B. Dean;Anacleto D. Gano;Kevin Knight;Joshua J. Ofman

  • Non‐erosive reflux disease (NERD) — acid reflux and symptom patterns

    S. D. Martinez;I. B. Malagon;H. S. Garewal;H. Cui

  • Functional Esophageal Disorders

    Aziz Q;Fass R;Gyawali Cp;Miwa H

  • The clinical and economic value of a short course of omeprazole in patients with noncardiac chest pain

    Ronnie Fass;M.Brian Fennerty;Joshua J. Ofman;Ian M. Gralnek

  • Systematic review: proton-pump inhibitor failure in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease--where next?

    R. Fass;M. Shapiro;R. Dekel;J. Sewell

  • Gastroesophageal reflux disease--should we adopt a new conceptual framework?

    Ronnie Fass;Joshua J Ofman

  • Clinical trial: Lubiprostone in patients with constipation-associated irritable bowel syndrome - Results of two randomized, placebo-controlled studies

    D. A. Drossman;William D. Chey;J. F. Johanson;R. Fass

  • ACG practice guidelines: esophageal reflux testing

    Ikuo Hirano;Joel E. Richter;Ronnie Fass;Darren S. Baroni

  • Management of heartburn not responding to proton pump inhibitors

    R Fass;D Sifrim

  • Nonerosive reflux disease— current concepts and dilemmas

    Ronnie Fass;M. Brian Fennerty;Nimish Vakil

  • Differential effect of long-term esophageal acid exposure on mechanosensitivity and chemosensitivity in humans

    Ronnie Fass;Bruce Naliboff;Lisa Higa;Cindy Johnson

  • Erosive esophagitis and nonerosive reflux disease (NERD): comparison of epidemiologic, physiologic, and therapeutic characteristics.

    Ronnie Fass

  • Canadian Consensus Conference on the Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Adults – Update 2004

    David Armstrong;John K. Marshall;Naoki Chiba;Robert Enns

  • Functional heartburn: the stimulus, the pain, and the brain

    R Fass;G Tougas

  • Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

    C. Prakash Gyawali;Ronnie Fass

  • Effect of amitryptiline on symptoms, sleep, and visceral perception in patients with functional dyspepsia

    H Mertz;H Mertz;R Fass;R Fass;A Kodner;A Kodner;F Yan-Go;F Yan-Go

  • Asia-Pacific consensus on the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease: Update

    Kwong Ming Fock;Nicholas J. Talley;Ronnie Fass;Khean Lee Goh

  • Management of heartburn not responding to proton pump

    D Sifrim;R Fass

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Sampliner
Richard E. Sampliner University of Arizona
Emeran A. Mayer
Emeran A. Mayer University of California, Los Angeles
Benjamin C.Y. Wong
Benjamin C.Y. Wong University of Hong Kong
Ian M. Gralnek
Ian M. Gralnek Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Henry P. Parkman
Henry P. Parkman Temple University
Bruce D. Naliboff
Bruce D. Naliboff University of California, Los Angeles
William D. Chey
William D. Chey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Harris Bernstein
Harris Bernstein University of Arizona
Nicholas J. Talley
Nicholas J. Talley University of Newcastle Australia
William R. Brugge
William R. Brugge Harvard University

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