Gastroesophageal reflux in infants and children : diagnosis, medical therapy, surgical management /
Gastroesophageal reflux disease is a common condition in children. In most infants the reflux disappears spontaneously after the first year of life; nevertheless, children may be managed with medical therapy and those with refractory disease should be referred to surgery. Guidelines for clinical pra...
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Berlin ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Anatomy of the esophagogastric junction
- Pathophysiology of gastroesophageal reflux
- Clinical aspects of gastroesophageal reflux in infants and children
- Gastroesophageal reflux secondary to malformations
- Conditions mimicking gastroesophageal reflux
- Infant regurgitation
- Gastroesophageal reflux in patients with respiratory symptoms
- Gastroesophageal reflux and Barrett's Esophagus
- Genetics of gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Pediatrics
- Esophageal manometry in the diagnostic evaluation of infants and children with GER
- Esophagogastric pH monitoring in the diagnostic evaluation of infants and children with GER
- Gastroesophageal endoscopy for the diagnostic evaluation of infants with GER
- Barium swallow: an useful exam to diagnose GER in children
- Scintigraphic assessment of GER in pediatric patients
- Ultrasonography and bronchoalveolar lavage for the diagnosis of children with gastroesophageal reflux
- Bronchoalveolar lavage technique to evaluate silent aspiration in children with reflux-associated respiratory disease
- Gastric emptying and pediatric gastroesophageal reflux
- Current concepts in the medical treatment of GER in children
- Long-term results of medical treatment and indications for surgery
- Surgery for gastroesophageal reflux?
- Retrospective analysis of fifty years of open surgery in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux
- Can laparoscopy be considered the "gold standard" in the management of children with GERD?
- Nissen-Rossetti's procedure
- Toupet's procedure
- Jaubert de Beaujeu's procedure
- Laparoscopic anterior fundoplication of the stomach according to Thal
- Boix-Ochoa's procedure
- Other antireflux procedures in infants with GERD
- Esophagogastric dissociation
- Complications of antireflux surgery
- Clinical outcomes after laparoscopic antireflux surgery
- Redo surgery in cases of recurrent GER
- Management of GER in neurologically impaired patients
- Results and follow-up of antireflux surgery in neurologically impaired children.