Correlation between manometric and pH tests for gastro-oesophageal reflux.

Correlation between manometric and pH tests for gastro-oesophageal reflux.

A series of tests, including gastro-oesophageal sphincter pressure measurement, short-term pH tests, and 15-hour overnight oesophageal pH recording were applied to 42 normal subjects and 214 patients with typical reflux symptoms. The results were compared by multivariate discriminant analysis. Sphincter pressure measurements misclassified 32%, stressed provocative manoeuvres 14-5%, and the best...

Relationship between asthma and gastro-oesophageal reflux.

Twenty patients with bronchial asthma who also had gastro-oesophageal reflux were investigated. The severity of their reflux was graded using symptom score of heartburn and regurgitation and by the following investigations: barium swallow and meal, fibreoptic endoscopy and biopsy, manometry and pH monitoring of the distal oesophagus, and an acid infusion test. Full lung function studies were pe...

GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL REFLUX The association between gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and asthma: a systematic review

Background and aim: Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) has been linked to a number of extraesophageal symptoms and disorders, primarily in the respiratory tract. This systematic review aimed to provide an estimate of the strength and direction of the association between GORD and asthma. Methods: Studies that assessed the prevalence or incidence of GORD in individuals with asthma, or of as...

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease is one of the most common disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Over past decades, considerable shifts in thinking about the disease have taken place. At a time when radiology was the only diagnostic test available, reflux disease was regarded as synonymous with hiatus hernia. After the advent of the flexible endoscope, reflux disease was, for a period, equa...

Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease