title: [Our experience with pediatric pH-metry].
abstract: METHODS
  The authors present their experience of pH monitoring in children performed in patients in the Pediatric Division selected on the basis of the following criteria: endoscopic evidence of incontinent cardia with or without oesophagitis, presence of pyrosis/epigastralgia even in the absence of objective endoscopic findings, dry cough without bronchopulmonary findings, vomit with apparent endoscopic causes, presence of anti-helicobacter antibodies with clinical symptoms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The authors report their findings and discuss them in comparison to the literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  They conclude by affirming that pH monitoring is a well tolerated and easily performed test in children. It may provide indications and useful clarifications regarding a number of pathologies often over- or undervalued by the doctors in charge or parents, leading to the start of correct treatment with excellent clinical results.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Regione Piemonte, Azienda Regionale USL n. 9, Ospedale Civile di Ivrea, Torino.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Valente
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ginardi
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Paino
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005764:Gastroesophageal Reflux / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008297:Male; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Nostra esperienza di pH-metria pediatrica.