Applying principles of physics to the airway to help explain the relationship between asthma and gastroesophageal reflux

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1075-1080

  Turbyville, Joseph C ^a,b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Ireland Army Community Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEPRAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHOANA ATRESIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROANATOMY; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREDICTION; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; RHINOSINUSITIS; RISK FACTOR; SINUSITIS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TRACHEOMALACIA; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CHOANAL ATRESIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESOPHAGUS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; PRESSURE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RHINITIS; RISK FACTORS; SINUSITIS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TRACHEOMALACIA;

EID: 77951619925     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.12.030     Document Type: Article

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