0 a condition in which liquid from the stomach moves upwards into the oesophagus (= the tube that takes food from the mouth to the stomach):
acid 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.
