[Infant esophageal pH monitoring (author's transl)].
The authors expound their experience of the infant esophageal pH monitoring from a 100 cases statistic. The digestive radiography is necessary for the vomiting infants but the efficiency of radiology is inadequate to diagnose the reflux and particularly to give a sufficient assessment of its intensity. The esophageal pH monitoring performed during a period of 3 hours is a tremendous learning experience; is allows the clinician to take mild reflux and severe reflux into account; performed in several positions, it shows interesting variations that we can turn to account by giving the therapeutic advices. That test is innocuous, easy, little costly, easily repeated; it must have its place beside other investigations and make us advance in the knowledge of a so often found disorder development.
D001991:Bronchitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004947:Esophagus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005764:Gastroesophageal Reflux / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007223:Infant; D011187:Posture; D011707:Pyloric Stenosis / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D014839:Vomiting / Q000175:diagnosis
Enregistrement continu du pH oesophagien chez le nourrisson.