Exempel på reflux

• The aim of initial investigations therefore is to identify the group of infants at greatest risk - principally boys with urethral valves or severe primary reflux.

• Chronic problems with oral feeding and gastroesophageal reflux necessitated a fundoplication and placement of a gastrostomy-tube.

• All of these nine patients showed regurgitant bloodflowby magnetic resonance imaging, including in these all four cases with moderate reflux.

• The particular example involves the cost-effectiveness of diagnosing gastroesophageal reflux disease.

• Symptom relief from functional dyspepsia can be achieved by antacids when the problems have a dominant element of reflux of acid into the esophagus.

• There is weak evidence for other organic causes such as reflux esophagitus and lactose intolerance.

• Clinically this results in elderly people commonly presenting initially with complications of reflux disease including benign oesophageal strictures.

• The negative predictive value for reflux of a normal scan is difficult to ascertain since ultrasound is an unreliable modality for the detection of reflux.

• Patients with symptomatic reflux but no evidence of oesophagitis have recently been labelled as having non-erosive reflux disease.

• Between 10% and 20% of patients with more than occasional dyspepsia have ulcers, and approximately 10% have reflux esophagitis, while less than 1% have cancer.

• If organic changes cannot be found, the problem may be attributed to a reflux disorder or functional dyspepsia.

• In many instances mild reflux does not give rise to infection and does not come to light postnatally.

• Prenatal diagnosis has afforded an opportunity to study patterns of damage in kidneys exposed to sterile reflux, without the complicating factor of infective renal scarring.

• This is due to a high rate of prescriptions for reflux disease and dysfunctional dyspepsia.

• He still believed in the existence of pores in the ventricular septum, andfluxand reflux of the blood through the veins.