Our experience with pediatric pH-metry
Valente, F.; Ginardi, A.; Paino, O.
Minerva Chirurgica 52(11): 1411-1415
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4733 PMID: 9489345 Document Number: 474514
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. The authors report their findings and discuss them in comparison to the literature. 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.