Abstract
Sonography was compared to pH-metry and/or oesophagomanometry to evaluate the accuracy of sonography in the early diagnosis of gastro-oesophageal reflux. Thirty children with a mean age of 72 days (21–252 days) were studied. The results showed that specificity of sonographic diagnosis was 87,5% and sensitivity was 100% (withP<0.001). Sonography also proved helpful in providing both functional and morphological data in addition to pH-metric results.
This study therefore suggests that sonography is useful as the first approach in the diagnosis of vomiting babies as it is non-invasive and provides sufficient diagnostic accuracy.
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Abbreviations
- GER:
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gastro-oesophageal reflux
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Riccabona, M., Maurer, U., Lackner, H. et al. The role of sonography in the evaluation of gastro-oesophageal reflux-correlation to pH-metry. Eur J Pediatr 151, 655–657 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01957566
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