Upper gastrointestinal motility: Prenatal development and problems in infancy

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 545-555

  Singendonk, Maartje M J ^a   Rommel, Nathalie ^b   Omari, Taher I ^c   Benninga, Marc A ^a   Van Wijk, Michiel P ^a  

^a EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Women's and Children's Health Network   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROKINETIC AGENT; STOMACH SECRETION INHIBITOR;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIET THERAPY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGEAL DYSMOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEEDING DIFFICULTY; FOOD ASPIRATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFANT FEEDING; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MILK ALLERGY; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARYNX DISEASE; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SWALLOWING; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA; ESOPHAGUS; FETUS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KINETICS; PHARYNX;

EID: 85047690569     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2014.75     Document Type: Review

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