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
He still believed in the existence of pores in the ventricular septum, andfluxand reflux of the blood through the veins.
This is due to a high rate of prescriptions for reflux disease and dysfunctional dyspepsia.
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.
In many instances mild reflux does not give rise to infection and does not come to light postnatally.
If organic changes cannot be found, the problem may be attributed to a reflux disorder or functional dyspepsia.
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.
Patients with symptomatic reflux but no evidence of oesophagitis have recently been labelled as having non-erosive reflux disease.
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.
