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Simultaneous Laryngopharyngeal and Conventional Esophageal pH Monitoring
Published on: December 14, 2020
Endoscopic-Guided Measurement of Mucosal Admittance can Discriminate Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease from Functional
Tomoaki Matsumura1, Hideaki Ishigami1, Mai Fujie2
1Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Objectives:
A novel catheter that can measure mucosal admittance (MA), the inverse of impedance, was developed recently. In this pilot study, we aimed to clarify the usefulness of measuring MA for diagnosing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
Methods:
We conducted two prospective studies. In the first study, esophageal MA was evaluated in 120 participants (24 with erosive esophagitis, 82 with heartburn but non-erosive esophagitis, and 14 healthy volunteers) and compared with the endoscopic findings. In the second study, multichannel intraluminal impedance combined with pH (MII-pH) tests was conducted followed by an MA measurement in 33 patients with non-erosive esophagitis and proton pump inhibitor (PPI)-refractory heartburn. Based on the MII-pH test results, patients were divided into GERD or functional heartburn (FH). MA was compared between the GERD and FH groups and also compared with the baseline impedance (BI) and acid exposure time (AET).
Results:
Median MA at the distal esophagus was significantly higher in patients with erosive esophagitis compared with that in patients with non-erosive esophagitis and healthy volunteers (46.8, 13.1 and 6.5, respectively, P<0.01). In patients with PPI-refractory heartburn, the median MA at the distal esophagus was significantly higher in patients with GERD than those with FH (19.3 vs. 7.2, P<0.05). There was a negative correlation between MA and BI, and a positive correlation between MA and AET at the distal esophagus (r=-0.46 and r=0.53, P<0.05).
Conclusions:
Real-time measurement of MA is useful to distinguish GERD from non-GERD.
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