| For the study, 26 patients with reflux laryngitis underwent upper digestive tract endoscopies, 24-hour double-probe pH-metry, and manometry. |
| Nurse practitioners have become competent lower gastrointestinal endoscopists, but only recently have they been shown to carry out upper endoscopies without any problems. |
| Multiple upper and lower endoscopies failed to localize a source of bleeding or site of angiodysplasia. |
| Nurses are taking over tasks from junior doctors administering intravenous drugs, doing endoscopies, preoperative assessment, and some prescribing. |
| With doctors still reluctant to use the dreaded 'C' word, they gave me blood tests, endoscopies, coloscopies and CT scans. |
| Patients who have had two consecutive endoscopies that show no dysplasia should undergo surveillance by endoscopy every three years. |
