Impact of measurement of esophageal acid exposure close to the gastroesophageal junction on diagnostic accuracy and event-symptom correlation: A prospective study using wireless dual pH monitoring

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2918-2925

  Bansal, Ajay ^a   Wani, Sachin ^a   Rastogi, Amit ^a   Rastogi, Keith ^b   Goyal, Amit ^c   Hall, Sandy ^a   Singh, Vikas ^a   Higbee, April ^a   Sharma, Prateek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFLUX DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM;

ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 72949094442     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.506     Document Type: Article

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