Is esophageal microradiotherapy good?

Esophageal micro-radiofrequency treatment is an effective way to relieve and improve gastroesophageal reflux. This treatment method can help reduce damage to muscle tissue. It is mainly suitable for gastroesophageal reflux patients over the age of eighteen.

1. Although gastroesophageal reflux is not a fatal disease, it has a serious negative impact on people's quality of life. One of the important reasons for its pathogenesis is that the "checkpoint" between the stomach and esophagus is too loose, allowing the food that has entered the stomach mixed with gastric acid to return to the esophagus and "cause trouble."

2. The most common treatment for gastroesophageal reflux is oral medication, but it can only relieve heartburn symptoms and is ineffective in relaxing the lower esophagus. In other words, it cannot fundamentally prevent the occurrence of reflux, which means it only treats the symptoms and not the root cause. Fundoplication is a surgical procedure that involves wrapping the gastric fundus around the lower esophagus through open or laparoscopic surgery, thereby effectively inhibiting reflux. Unfortunately, not every patient can undergo such a complex surgery.

3. In recent years, endoscopic micro-radiofrequency technology is a newly developed minimally invasive treatment method in the world, which was previously unknown in my country. It uses radio frequency to cause tiny damage to muscle tissue, thereby inducing regeneration of connective tissue within the muscle tissue, causing collagen to contract and reconstruct. At the same time, it can weaken the relaxation nerve function within the muscle, increase the thickness and pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter, and effectively end the occurrence of gastroesophageal reflux.

4. When using endoscopic micro-radio frequency technology, the professionally designed control host generates constant-power radio frequency. The sinusoidal micro-radio frequency provides temperature-controlled radio frequency energy to the gastroesophageal area through a flexible catheter. There are four nickel-titanium alloy electrodes distributed on the balloon carried by the catheter. When the balloon is inflated, the electrode will be inserted into the esophageal mucosa, and the electrode length will allow it to be positioned only in the muscle layer. The precisely controlled radio frequency generates heat energy that causes tissue destruction and regeneration, inducing collagen tissue contraction and reconstruction, and ultimately leading to narrowing and tightening of the gastroesophageal junction. The entire process of endoscopic micro-radiofrequency treatment takes 45 minutes. The patient suffers less pain and can return to work on the same day. The patient will feel the symptoms alleviated or disappear two hours after the treatment. According to foreign clinical reports, the effective rate remains above 90% after 4 years of treatment.

5. Endoscopic micro-radiofrequency treatment is suitable for patients over 18 years old who have heartburn and reflux symptoms and require daily medication control. From the symptom point of view, patients whose symptoms continue to worsen and are not well controlled; or whose reflux symptoms can be controlled but have other symptoms; or who cannot tolerate medication; those who strongly desire to stop using medication and those who have lower esophageal sphincter relaxation are all suitable for this treatment.