Gastroesophageal reflux: Not a time to "relax"

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 436-438

  Di Lorenzo, Carlo ^a  

^a NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ATROPINE; BACLOFEN; BETHANECHOL; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CISAPRIDE; DOMPERIDONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; NITRIC OXIDE; OMEPRAZOLE; ONDANSETRON; PROKINETIC AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SOMATOSTATIN; SUMATRIPTAN;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSPEPSIA; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FATIGUE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; STOMACH EMPTYING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; MUSCLE RELAXATION;

EID: 33748976737     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2006.07.028     Document Type: Editorial

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