Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine

Gastroenterology

Marcelo F. Vela Aquino is an expert in the field of Gastroenterology. He received awards:"CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Super Doctor" and "Fellow (FACG)". Marcelo F. Vela Aquino is a published MD. He published 47 publications, including: 'Identification of Quality Measures for Performance of and Interpretation of Data From Esophageal Manometry.'

Publications

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• The impact of obesity on oEsophageal acid exposure time on and off proton pump inhibitor therapy.
• Identification of Quality Measures for Performance of and Interpretation of Data From Esophageal Manometry.
• The Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori Remains High in African American and Hispanic Veterans.
• Development of Quality Measures for the Care of Patients with GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease.
• Association between Helicobacter pylori and Barrett's Esophagus: A Case-Control Study.
• Poor sleep quality and obstructive sleep apnea in patients with GERD and Barrett's esophagus.
• Medical Treatments of GERD: The Old and New.
• Visceral abdominal obesity measured by CT scan is associated with an increased risk of Barrett's oesophagus: a case-control study.
• Utilization of wireless pH monitoring technologies: a summary of the proceedings from the Esophageal Diagnostic Working Group.
• Preoperative Diagnostic Workup before Antireflux Surgery: An Evidence and Experience-Based Consensus of the Esophageal Diagnostic Advisory Panel.
• Response to Savarino et al.
• Response to Franciosa et al. and Triadafilopoulos.
• ACG Clinical Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Achalasia.
• Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease.
• Refractory Heartburn: Comparison of Intercellular Space Diameter in Documented GERD vs. Functional Heartburn.
• Comparison of reflux frequency during prolonged multichannel intraluminal impedance and pH monitoring on and off acid suppression therapy.
• The clinical usefulness of high-resolution manometry for the management of achalasia.
• Esophageal-reflux monitoring.
• The effect of oral buspirone, pyridostigmine, and bethanechol on Esophageal function evaluated with combined multichannel Esophageal impedance-manometry in healthy vol...
• Non-acid reflux: detection by multichannel intraluminal impedance and pH, clinical significance and management.
• An analysis of distal Esophageal impedance in individuals with and without Esophageal motility abnormalities.
• New Esophageal function testing (impedance, Bravo pH monitoring, and high-resolution manometry): clinical relevance.
• An analysis of persistent symptoms in acid-suppressed patients undergoing impedance-pH monitoring.
• Characteristics of symptomatic reflux episodes on Acid suppressive therapy.
• The long-term efficacy of pneumatic dilatation and Heller myotomy for the treatment of achalasia.
• Pneumatic dilation for the treatment of achalasia in untreated patients and patients with failed Heller myotomy.
• Profile of GERD in the adult population of a northeast urban community.
• Complexities of managing achalasia at a tertiary referral center: use of pneumatic dilatation, Heller myotomy, and botulinum toxin injection.
• Multichannel intraluminal impedance in Esophageal function testing and gastroEsophageal reflux monitoring.
• Esophageal function testing with combined multichannel intraluminal impedance and manometry: multicenter study in healthy volunteers.
• [If no-acid, no-heartburn? New physiopathological mechanisms of the gastroEsophageal reflux disease].
• Maximal acid reflux control for Barrett''s oesophagus: feasible and effective.
• Vigorous achalasia: original description requires minor change.
• Combined multichannel intraluminal impedance and pH-metry: an evolving technique to measure type and proximal extent of gastroEsophageal reflux.
• Simultaneous intraEsophageal impedance and pH measurement of acid and nonacid gastroEsophageal reflux: effect of omeprazole.
• Esophageal function testing using multichannel intraluminal impedance.
• Baclofen decreases acid and non-acid post-prandial gastro-oEsophageal reflux measured by combined multichannel intraluminal impedance and pH.
• Symptoms with acid and nonacid reflux may be produced by different mechanisms.
• Normal values for manometry performed with swallows of viscous test material.
• Twenty-four hour ambulatory simultaneous impedance and pH monitoring: a multicenter report of normal values from 60 healthy volunteers.
• Acid and non-acid reflux in patients with persistent symptoms despite acid suppressive therapy: a multicentre study using combined ambulatory impedance-pH monitoring.
• Impedance manometry with viscous test solution increases detection of Esophageal function defects compared to liquid swallows.
• Revised criterion for diagnosis of ineffective Esophageal motility is associated with more frequent dysphagia and greater bolus transit abnormalities.
• Cost-assessment of alternative management strategies for achalasia.
• Empiric PPI therapy or endoscopy for the initial management of patients with GERD in the absence of alarm features?
• Multichannel intraluminal impedance and pH monitoring in gastroEsophageal reflux disease.

Schools

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• Universidad Francisco Marroquin Facultad De Medicina

• McP Hahnemann School Of Medicine

• Cleveland Clinic Foundation

• Universidad Francisco Marroquin Guatemala

Conditions Treated

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• Esophageal Diseases
• Gastrointestinal Diseases
• Impacted Shoulders

Doctors Specialties

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• Gastroenterology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
• Super Doctor
• Fellow (FACG)

Education

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• Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Universidiad Francisco Marroquin Faculty of Medicine

Hospital

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• Mayo Clinic - Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona

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