Gastro-oesophageal reflux in apparent life threatening events.

A life-threatening respiratory complication of gastro-oesophageal reflux in a patient with tetraplegia.

Recurrent attacks of life-threatening dyspnoea and choking occurred in a patient with tetraplegia. Conventional investigations for gastro-oesophageal reflux were normal, but 24-hour oesophageal pH recording revealed gross reflux in association with an attack of dyspnoea. Surgical correction of the reflux abolished the attacks. The possibility of autonomic dysreflexia as the mechanism linking re...

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease is one of the most common disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Over past decades, considerable shifts in thinking about the disease have taken place. At a time when radiology was the only diagnostic test available, reflux disease was regarded as synonymous with hiatus hernia. After the advent of the flexible endoscope, reflux disease was, for a period, equa...

Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease

Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease

Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease