Twenty-four hour ambulatory simultaneous impedance and pH monitoring: A multicenter report of normal values from 60 healthy volunteers

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1037-1043

  Shay, Steven ^a   Tutuian, Radu ^b   Sifrim, Daniel ^b   Vela, Marcelo ^b   Wise, James ^b   Balaji, Nagammapudur ^b   Zhang, Xin ^b   Adhami, Talal ^b   Murray, Joseph ^b   Peters, Jeffrey ^b   Castell, Donald ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRODE; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GAS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; LIQUID; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECUMBENCY; STANDING; STOMACH PH; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTRIC ACID; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2542484676     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.04172.x     Document Type: Article

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