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Overview

Tom R. DeMeester is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States and has contributed primarily to the field of Medicine. Their research focuses on Surgery and Gastroenterology, with additional work related to Speech and Hearing as well as Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Esophageal and GI Pathology
  • Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments
  • Eosinophilic Esophagitis
  • Dysphagia Assessment and Management
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes

DeMeester has published articles in various journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Diseases of the Esophagus
  • Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
  • Langenbeck s Archives of Surgery
  • Journal of Surgery and Research
  • Foregut The Journal of the American Foregut Society

Among their recent papers are:

  • Effect of Increased Intra-abdominal Pressure on the Esophagogastric Junction (2022, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology)
  • Severity of GERD and disease progression (2021, Diseases of the Esophagus)
  • Propensity score-matched comparison between open and minimal invasive hybrid esophagectomy for esophageal adenocarcinoma (2020, Langenbeck s Archives of Surgery)
  • Transient Lower Esophageal Sphincter Relaxations and Mechanical Incompetence of the Lower Esophageal Sphincter - Is There a Relationship? (2020, Journal of Surgery and Research)
  • Perspectives and Lessons Learned on the Development and Collaboration in Foregut Disease (2021, Foregut The Journal of the American Foregut Society)

DeMeester collaborates frequently with a range of researchers, including:

  • Stefano Siboni
  • Luigi Bonavina
  • Benjamin D. Rogers
  • Ciara Egan
  • Edoardo Savarino

Best Publications

  • Relevant prognostic factors in gastric cancer: ten-year results of the German Gastric Cancer Study.

    Jörg Rüdiger Siewert;Knut Böttcher;Hubert J. Stein;Jürgen D. Roder

  • Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease. Evaluation of primary repair in 100 consecutive patients.

    Tom R. Demeester;Luigi Bonavina;Mario Albertucci

  • Esophageal Eosinophilia with Dysphagia A Distinct Clinicopathologic Syndrome

    Stephen E. A. Attwood;Thomas C. Smyrk;Tom R. Demeester;James B. Jones

  • Patterns of gastroesophageal reflux in health and disease.

    Tom R. Demeester;Lawrence F. Johnson;Guy J. Joseph;Michele S. Toscano

  • Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication is an effective treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease.

    Ronald A. Hinder;Charles J. Filipi;Gerold Wetscher;Patricia Neary

  • Technique, indications, and clinical use of 24 hour esophageal pH monitoring

    Tom R. DeMeester;Ching-I Wang;Jorge A. Wernly;Carlos A. Pellegrini

  • Ambulatory 24-h esophageal pH monitoring: normal values, optimal thresholds, specificity, sensitivity, and reproducibility.

    J. R. Jamieson;H. J. Stein;T. R. Demeester;L. Bonavina

  • The Number of Lymph Nodes Removed Predicts Survival in Esophageal Cancer: An International Study on the Impact of Extent of Surgical Resection

    Christian G Peyre;Jeffrey A Hagen;Steven R DeMeester;Nasser K Altorki

  • Laparoscopic repair of large type III hiatal hernia: objective followup reveals high recurrence rate.

    Majid Hashemi;Jeffrey H Peters;Tom R DeMeester;James E Huprich

  • Epigenetic patterns in the progression of esophageal adenocarcinoma.

    Cindy A. Eads;Reginald V. Lord;Kumari Wickramasinghe;Tiffany I. Long

  • Outcome of adenocarcinoma arising in Barrett's esophagus in endoscopically surveyed and nonsurveyed patients.

    Jeffrey H. Peters;Geoffrey W.B. Clark;Adrian P. Ireland;Para Chandrasoma

  • Mixed reflux of gastric and duodenal juices is more harmful to the esophagus than gastric juice alone. The need for surgical therapy re-emphasized.

    Werner K. H. Kauer;Jeffrey H. Peters;Tom R. DeMeester;Adrian P. Ireland

  • The lower esophageal sphincter in health and disease.

    Giovanni Zaninotto;Tom R. DeMeester;Werner Schwizer;Kari Erik Johansson

  • Development of the 24-hour intraesophageal pH monitoring composite scoring system.

    Lawrence F. Johnson;Tom R. DeMeester

  • Mesh complications after prosthetic reinforcement of hiatal closure: A 28-case series

    Rudolf J. Stadlhuber;Amr El Sherif;Sumeet K. Mittal;Robert J. Fitzgibbons

  • Normal 24-hr ambulatory esophageal pH values. Influence of study center, pH electrode, age, and gender.

    Joel E. Richter;Laurence A. Bradley;Tom R. DeMeester;Wallace C. Wu

  • Curative resection for esophageal adenocarcinoma: analysis of 100 en bloc esophagectomies.

    Jeffrey A. Hagen;Steven R. DeMeester;Jeffrey H. Peters;Para Chandrasoma

  • Prevalence and risk factors for ischemia, leak, and stricture of esophageal anastomosis: Gastric pull-up versus colon interposition

    John W Briel;Anand P Tamhankar;Jeffrey A Hagen;Steven R DeMeester

  • Multivariate analysis of factors predicting outcome after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.

    Guilherme M.R. Campos;Jeffrey H. Peters;Tom R. DeMeester;Stefan Öberg

  • Inflammation and specialized intestinal metaplasia of cardiac mucosa is a manifestation of gastroesophageal reflux disease.

    Stefan Öberg;Jeffrey H. Peters;Tom R. DeMeester;Para Chandrasoma

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Hagen
Jeffrey A. Hagen University of Southern California
Jeffrey H. Peters
Jeffrey H. Peters University Hospitals of Cleveland
Hubert J. Stein
Hubert J. Stein Paracelsus Medical University
Peter V. Danenberg
Peter V. Danenberg University of Southern California
Kathleen D. Danenberg
Kathleen D. Danenberg University of Southern California
Harvey M. Golomb
Harvey M. Golomb University of Chicago
Thomas C. Smyrk
Thomas C. Smyrk Mayo Clinic
Peter W. Laird
Peter W. Laird Van Andel Institute
Susan Groshen
Susan Groshen University of Southern California
Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma University of Rochester

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