The diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) entails the identification of
patients with esophagitis and its complications as well as patients who have symptoms but …

Clinicians typically make the diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) from the
clinical findings and then prescribe acid-suppressing drugs. Endoscopy is usually done for …

Gastroesophageal reflux disease is a common problem that frequently presents with atypical
complaints including nausea, hiccups, globus sensation, chest pain, hoarseness, coughing …

Ambulatory 24-h esophageal pH monitoring is an accurate quantitative test of
gastroesophageal reflux (GER). However, it does not answer the question: are the patients' …

Twenty-four-hour home esophageal pH monitoring is proposed in order to study
gastroesophageal reflux (GER) so that prolonged use of costly hospital equipment and staff …

Symptomatic gastroesophageal (GE) reflux remains the most common clinical malady of the
esophagus. Excessive GE reflux or other predisposing factors such as abnormal …

Careful scrutiny of pH recordings and symptom diaries in patients having 24-hour pH-metry
reveals that most reflux episodes are asymptomatic. Although this observation is well known …

Endoscopy is, currently, the initial investigation of choice for the investigation of
gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in clinical practice and clinical research. Erosion …

We describe in detail our logic for deriving a system to score 24-hour intraesophageal pH
records of patients with gastroesophageal reflux. This system uses a uniform scoring unit …

Prolonged intraesophageal pH monitoring is considered by some to be the most sensitive
and specific test of gastroesophageal reflux. We prospectively examined the ability of the …