Gastro-oesophageal reflux in patients with coronary artery disease: How common is it and does it matter?

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 973-978

  Mehta, Anand J ^a   De Caestecker, John S ^a   Camm, A John ^a   Northfield, Timothy C ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angina pectoris; Chest pain; Gastro oesophageal reflux

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0029964731     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-199610000-00007     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Bennett JR, Atkinson M: Oesophageal acid perfusion in the diagnosis of precordial pain. Lancet 1966, ii:1150-1152.
2. Kramer P, Hollander W: Comparison of experimental esophageal pain with clinical pain of angina pectoris and esophageal disease. Gastroenterology 1955, 29:719-743.
3. Gilbert NC, Fenn GK, LeRoy GV: The effect of distension of abdominal viscera on coronary blood flow and on angina pectoris. JAMA 1940, 115:1962-1967.
4. Morrison LM, Swalm W: Role of gastrointestinal tract in production of cardiac symptoms. JAMA 1940, 114:217-223.
5. Yackee J, Lipson A, Wasserman AG: Electrocardiographic changes suggestive of cardiac ischemia in a patient with esophageal food impaction: 'a case that's hard to swallow'. JAMA 1986, 255:2065-2066.
6. Morris JC, Shelburne PF, Orgain ES: Coronary disease and hiatus hernia: an example in support of the existence of the viscerocardiac reflex. JAMA 1963, 183:788-790.
7. Smith KS, Papp C: Episodic, postural and linked angina. BMJ 1962, 2:1425-1430.
8. Alban Davies H, Page Z, Rush EM, Brown AL, Lewis MJ, Petch MC: Oesophageal stimulation lowers exertional angina threshold. Lancet 1985, i:1011-1014.
9. Mellow MH, Simpson AG, Watt L, Schoolmeester L, Haye OL: Esophageal acid perfusion in coronary artery disease. Induction of myocardial ischemia. Gastroenterology 1983, 85:306-312.
10. Mehta AJ, de Caestecker JS, Northfield TC: Effects of nifedipine and atenolol on gastro-oesophageal reflux. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1993, 5:627-629.
11. Garcia PJ, Patel PH, Hunter WC, Douglas JE, Thomas E: Esophageal contribution to chest pain in patients with coronary artery disease. Chest 1990, 98:806-810.
12. Singh S, Richter JE, Hewson EG, Sinclair JW, Hackshaw BT: The contribution of gastroesophageal reflux to chest pain in patients with coronary artery disease. Ann Intern Med 1992, 117:824-830.
13. Bruce RA, Hornsten TR: Exercise stress testing in evaluation of patients with ischemic heart disease. Prog Cardiovasc Dis 1969, 11:371-390.
14. Dodds WJ: Instrumentation and methods for intraluminal esophageal manometry. Arch Intern Med 1976, 136:515-523.
15. Schindlbeck NE, Heinrich C, König A, Dendorfer A, Pace F, Müller LS: Optimal thresholds, sensitivity, and specificity of long-term pH-metry for the detection of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Gastroenterology 1987, 93:85-90.
16. Deanfield JE, Ribiero P, Oakley K, Krikler S, Selwyn AP: Analysis of ST-segment changes in normal subjects: implications for ambulatory monitoring in angina pectoris. Am J Cardiol 1984, 54:1321-1325.
17. Wiener GJ, Richter JE, Copper JB, Wu WC, Castell DO: The symptom index: a clinically important parameter of ambulatory 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring. Am J Gastroenterol 1988, 83:358-361.
18. Nabel EG, Rocco MB, Selwyn AP: Characteristics and significance of ischemia detected by ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring. Circulation 1987, 75(suppl. V):V74-83.
19. Deanfield JE, Maseri A, Selwyn AP, Ribeiro P, Chierchia S, Krikler S, et al.: Myocardial ischaemia during daily life in patients with stable angina: its relation to symptoms and heart rate changes. Lancet 1983, ii:753-758.
20. Selwyn AP, Fox K, Eves M, Oakley D, Dargie H, Shillingford J: Myocardial ischaemia in patients with frequent angina pectoris. BMJ 1978, 2:1594-1596.
21. Campbell S, Barry J, Rebecca GS, Rocco MB, Nabel EG, Selwyn AP: Active ischemia during daily life in asymptomatic patients with positive exercise tests and coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol 1986, 57:1010-1016.
22. Fuchs KH, DeMeester TR, Albertucci M: Specificity and sensitivity of objective diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Surgery 1987, 102:575-580.
23. Lacey Smith J, Opekun AR, Larkai E, Graham DY: Sensitivity of the esophageal mucosa to pH in gastroesophageal reflux disease. Gastroenterology 1989, 96:683-689.
24. Nebel OT, Fornes MF, Castell DO: Symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux: incidence and precipitating factors. Am J Dig Dis 1976, 21:953-956.
25. Gelfond M, Rozen P, Keren S, Gilat T: Effect of nitrates on LOS pressure in achalasia: a potential therapeutic aid. Gut 1981, 22:312-318.
26. Richter JE, Dalton CB, Buice RG, Castell DO: Nifedipine: a potent inhibitor of contractions in the body of the human esophagus. Studies in healthy volunteers and patients with the nutcracker esophagus. Gastroenterology 1985, 89:549-554.