title: [Gastroesophageal reflux in pediatric neurologic patients].
abstract: With the aim of evaluating the incidence of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in neurologic pediatric patients with severe motor and/or psychiatric involvement, a retrospective study of 140 infants followed at the Neuropediatric Unit was realized. Forty-five patients (32.1%) had moderate to severe mental retardation (ms RR), 21 of these patients had associated tetraparetic cerebral palsy (T-CP). The rest of the infants presented variable degrees of neurologic involvement: 25 diplegic (D-CP), 27 hemiparetic (H-CP), 22 with slight mental retardation or borderline IQ without motor deficit (SMR), and 21 had attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADD-H). The diagnosis of GER was based on clinical symptomatology and barium ingestion with fluoroscopy and/or esophagoscopy. GER was confirmed in 27 patients: 19 (90.5%) with T-CP, 6 (25%) with ms-MR and 2 (8%) with D-CP. The rest of the infants did not have GER. There was a very significant difference in the frequency of GER in the T-CP group with respect to the other groups (p < 0.001) and a significant difference in the ms-MR patients with respect to the other groups (p < 0.05). The treatment of GER was surgical in ten patients (37%), after failure of medical treatment in 8; exclusively medical treatment in 10 cases (37%) and postural and dietetic treatment in 7 (26%) patients. Good control of GER, resulting in an improvement in the quality of life, occurred in 90% of the patients treated surgically and only in 55% of the patients treated medically.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors: Departamento de Pediatría, Unidad de Neurología Infantil, Clínica Universitaria, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona.
authors: M L
authors: ML
authors: Vega Gutiérrez
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Benito Fernández
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Alvarez Gómez
authors: J L
authors: JL
authors: Hernández Lizoáin
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Narbona García
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Villa Elizaga
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005764:Gastroesophageal Reflux / Q000209:etiology*; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D015493:Paraparesis, Tropical Spastic / Q000503:physiopathology; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000503:physiopathology
vernacular_title: Reflujo gastroesofágico en pacientes neurológicos pediátricos.