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Is the Diagnostic Trial with Proton Pump Inhibitors Reasonable for School Age Children with Gastroesophageal Reflux Symptoms?
- Source :
- Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- The Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, 2019.
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Abstract
- Purpose On the basis of evidence, we aimed to reevaluate the necessity of the empirical proton pump inhibitor (PPI) trial for children with suspected gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Methods We analyzed the frequency of GERD in 85 school-age children with gastroesophageal reflux (GER) symptoms, who received 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring and/or upper endoscopy. According to the reflux index (RI), the children were classified into normal (RI
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.drug_class
Proton-pump inhibitor
Proton pump inhibitor
Gastroenterology
Empirical
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030225 pediatrics
Internal medicine
medicine
Reflux esophagitis
Prospective cohort study
Child
Hepatology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Reflux
medicine.disease
Gastroesophageal reflux
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
GERD
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Original Article
Esophageal pH monitoring
business
Esophagitis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22348840 and 22348646
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1e8db5e9e1cffee0e564f175714012ad