Eosinophilic esophagitis: time for clinical practice

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Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) has rapidly increased from a rare disease to common one. In 2008, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed for 4188 patients in our institute, but no EoE was diagnosed. Ten years later, 24 EoE cases (0.33%) were found among 7275 investigated patients. In the study by Kinoshita et al., the prevalence of EoE in Japan shows a steady increase from 0.02 to 0.05% in 2012, 0.13% in 2013, 0.07–0.20% in 2014, and 0.4% in 2016 [1]. The prevalence of EoE is increasing worldwide [2], and the recent study by Tanaka et al. reports the detection rate of EoE was 0.45% (27/5964 persons) [3]. From the studies including ours, the prevalence of EoE is relatively similar (0.33–0.45%) in Japan. …