A balancing view: Impedance-pH testing in GERD - Limited role for now, perhaps more helpful in the future

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 104, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2669-2670

  Shay, Steven ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GASTRIC PH MONITORING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE PH TESTING; MANOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH PH; STOMACH SURGERY;

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72049085289     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.502     Document Type: Review

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