Erythromycin enhances oesophageal motility in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 98-102

  Chrysos, Emmanuel ^a   Tzovaras, George ^a   Epanomeritakis, Emmanuel ^a   Tsiaoussis, John ^a   Vrachasotakis, Nikolaos ^a   Vassilakis, John Sophocles ^a   Xynos, Evaghelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Erythromycin; Gastro oesophageal reflux; Oesophageal motility

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MALE;

ADULT; AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY;

EID: 0035112918     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.2001.02005.x     Document Type: Article

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