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Detection of gastro‐oesophageal reflux in the neonatal unit

Author(s) -

Rossor Thomas,

Lingam Ingran,

Douiri Abdel,

Bhat Ravindra,

Greenough Anne

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

acta paediatrica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772

H-Index - 115

eISSN - 1651-2227

pISSN - 0803-5253

DOI - 10.1111/apa.14315

Subject(s) - reflux , medicine , gastroenterology , gestational age , gastro , prospective cohort study , esophageal ph monitoring , gerd , pregnancy , disease , biology , genetics

Aim To determine whether a pH probe or multichannel intraluminal impedance ( MII ) more frequently detected gastro‐oesophageal reflux and test the hypothesis that acid reflux was associated with lower baseline impedance. Methods A prospective study of infants in whom reflux was suspected and evaluated using combined pH and multichannel impedance. Studies were considered abnormal if the acid index was >10% or there were >79 MII reflux events in 24 hours. The acid index was the percentage of total study time with a pH

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