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    Area of Science:

    • Gastroenterology
    • Digestive Physiology
    • Diagnostic Medicine

    Background:

    • Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) presents with typical symptoms, necessitating accurate diagnostic methods.
    • Current diagnostic tools for GERD, including sphincter pressure measurement and short-term pH tests, have limitations in accuracy.
    • Objective differentiation between normal physiology and pathological reflux is crucial for effective patient management.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate and compare the diagnostic efficacy of various tests for identifying gastroesophageal reflux.
    • To determine the optimal method for distinguishing between normal subjects and patients with reflux symptoms.
    • To develop a more accurate diagnostic function for GERD using objective esophageal pH monitoring data.

    Main Methods:

    • Conducted gastro-oesophageal sphincter pressure measurement, short-term pH tests, and 15-hour overnight oesophageal pH recordings.
    • Recruited 42 normal subjects and 214 patients with typical reflux symptoms for comparative analysis.
    • Employed multivariate discriminant analysis to compare the results of the different diagnostic tests.

    Main Results:

    • Sphincter pressure measurements showed a high misclassification rate of 32%.
    • Stressed provocative maneuvers had a misclassification rate of 14.5%.
    • A combination of the number and mean duration of reflux episodes during 15-hour overnight pH monitoring reduced misclassification to 8.8%, outperforming individual tests.

    Conclusions:

    • Overnight esophageal pH monitoring, particularly when analyzing reflux episode frequency and duration, offers superior diagnostic accuracy for GERD.
    • The developed function provides a clear boundary for diagnosing reflux and quantifies the degree of abnormality.
    • This refined diagnostic approach improves the objective assessment of gastroesophageal reflux disease.