O Frobert, P Funch-Jensen, JP Bagger - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1996 - Am Coll Physicians Measurements: 1] 24-hour three-channel esophageal manometry and two-channel pH
monitoring, 2) provocation testing with intravenous edrophonium chloride and esophageal acid
perfusion, and 3) Holter electrocardiography conducted during the first two tests. In ... Cited by 44 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
O Frobert, P Funch-Jensen, NO Jacobsen, A Kruse, JP … - Endoscopy, 1995 - thieme-connect.com Results: Macroscopic esophagitis was found in 15 patients (31 %), and microscopic esophagitis
in 11 (25 % of the patients who underwent esophageal biopsy). One patient had macroscopic
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PC Hsia, KA Maher, JH Lewis, EL Cattau Jr, DE … - Gastrointestinal …, 1991 - Elsevier The diagnostic yield of esophagogastroduodenoscopy, esophageal manometry, and Bernstein
testing was assessed in 100 consecutive patients being evaluated for non-cardiac chest
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S Rose, E Achkar, KA Easley - Digestive diseases and sciences, 1994 - Springer Noncardiac chest pain may be a debilitating symptom. The utility of esophageal testing to enhance
patient quality of life has been inconclusive. The purpose of this study was to evaluate prospectively
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- ►bmj.com RA Cooke, A Anggiansah, JB Chambers, WJ … - British Medical Journal, 1998 - gut.bmj.com Between March 1990 and April 1991, 1022 consecutive patients underwent coronary angiography
as part of the investigation of chest pain. Of these, 84 (8.2%) had completely normal angiograms
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F Nevens, J Janssens, J Piessens, G Ghillebert, H … - Digestive diseases and …, 1991 - Springer The prevalence of esophageal chest pain was studied prospectively in patients referred on an
elective basis to a cardiac unit for suspected myocardial ischemia. A group of 248 consecutive
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HGT Lam, W Dekker, G Kan, M Breedijk, A … - … (New York, NY. 1943), 1992 - cat.inist.fr Acute noncardiac chest pain in a coronary care unit: evaluation by 24-hour pressure and pH
recording of the esophagus. HGT LAM, W DEKKER, G KAN, M BREEDIJK, AJPM SMOUT
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CB Dalton, EG Hewson, DO Castell, JE Richter - Digestive diseases and …, 1990 - Springer Edrophonium chloride is used frequently as a provocative agent in the assessment of noncardiac
chest pain (NCCP). However, the optimum dose and most appropriate method of interpreting
test results is controversial. We studied 150 consecutive NCCP patients and 50 age- ... Cited by 23 - Related articles - All 3 versions
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RC Heading non-cardiac chest pain. oesophageal manometry in patients with and oesophageal
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AJ Mehta, JS De Caestecker, A John Camm, TC … - Gastroenterology, 1995 - Elsevier : The mechanism of abnormal esophageal sensory perception in patients with unexplained chest
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