{"id":22043,"date":"2019-02-13T16:39:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T21:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?post_type=episode&p=22043"},"modified":"2023-06-06T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:48:55","slug":"eoe-dellon","status":"publish","type":"episode","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/chairs-corner\/podcast\/eoe-dellon\/","title":{"rendered":"Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) \u2013 with Dr. Evan Dellon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Evan Dellon describes eosinophilic esophagitis, an allergic condition of the esophagus which causes a person to have trouble swallowing food. In addition to describing the symptoms of this condition, how it is diagnosed, and how it can be treated, he and Dr. Falk also talk about the risk factors for EoE and why the incidence of this condition is increasing.<\/p>\n

“When you can look back at pathology samples from the 70\u2019s, 80\u2019s, and 90\u2019s, you just don\u2019t see the level of inflammation in the esophagus, with eosinophils. People didn\u2019t see the findings in the esophagus when they did endoscopies in the 1980\u2019s. Something has clearly changed. The incidence is increasing. It\u2019s becoming more and more common.”<\/h5>\n
– Dr. Evan Dellon<\/h5>\n<\/div>
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