Incidence of Gastroesophageal Reflux in Sleep, Awake, Fasted, and Postcibal Periods in Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Infants

Color Doppler in the diagnosis of the gastroesophageal reflux in children: Comparison with pH measurements and B-mode ultrasound

“…In children pH neutral reflux in the postprandial period cannot be assessed by pH measurement but is amenable to US and radiographical evaluation. This is particularly important in children as the gastric contents may be neutralized after milk feeding [11]. Some of the disagreement in the diagnosis of reflux by US and CD with pH-metry may be attributed to the fact that they measure different aspects of reflux and both acid and non-acid reflux may be responsible for various pulmonary symptoms in these patients [12,13].…”

Association between gastroesophageal reflux and dips in the oxygen transcutaneous saturation of the hemoglobin in infants with chronic obstructive ventilatory disease

“…O número total de episódios e o índice de Euler não discriminaram os pacientes com e sem apnéia. Quanto ao ZMD, também verificou valores mais elevados no grupo com apnéias, o qual apresentava média de idade significativamente menor do que o grupo sem apnéias 24 .…”

Gastroesophageal manometry and 24-hour double pH monitoring in neonates with birth asphyxia

“…There are large laps between physiological and pathological GER [30] . Normal physiological GER occurs when a baby is in a standing position, or in a state of wakening and post meal, whereas the pathological GER occurs when the baby is in supine position, or during sleep and before meal [31] . In our study,the GER in asphyxia patients obviously belong to the pathological GER no matter using Boix-Ochoa Index or other diagnostic standards.…”