Older patients with eosinophilic esophagitis have high treatment response to topical steroids

There are few data assessing treatment response in older eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) patients and we evaluated treatment outcomes to topical corticosteroids (tCS) in this older population.This retrospective cohort study of the UNC EoE Clinicopathologic database included subjects with a new diagnosis of EoE treated with tCS. Histologic responses, global symptom response, and endoscopic changes were recorded. Older EoE patients (≥65 years) were...