(n.) An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nausea and heartburn occurred in 3 cases only and were controlled by reducing the dosage.
(2) A 62-year-old man with severe heartburn and persistent hiccups despite numerous diagnostic tests and therapeutic drug trials presented to our clinic.
(3) We speculate that hormone-related impairment of distal oesophageal clearance mechanisms may have a crucial bearing on whether heartburn develops in those individuals at greatest risk.
(4) Heartburn was induced by a meal consisting of chili, black coffee, and a spicy tomato drink mix.
(5) Heartburn was the most common symptom, more frequent in females than in males (p less than 0.01).
(6) Primary symptoms include dysphagia, odynophagia, heartburn and central chest pain.
(7) Symptoms of heartburn, regurgitation, and dysphagia were absent or minimal in most patients.
(8) The occurrence of heartburn did not correlate with the extent of reflux in the pH study.
(9) However, onions significantly increased all measures in heartburn subjects, compared with the no-onion condition, and compared with normals under the onion condition.
(10) Heartburn and epigastric pain, monitored every other week, were significantly relieved by both treatments, but to a significantly greater extent (70% vs 20% on average, p less than 0.01) and significantly faster (p less than 0.01) in the presence of triletide.
(11) 90 patients living more than 3 months complained of the following: heartburn, 18 (20%); reflux, 12 (13.3%); retrosternal pain, 3 (3.3%); stenotic sensation, 23 (25.6%); diarrhea, 10 (11.1%); abdominal pain, 14 (15.6%); and dumping syndrome, 6 (6.7%).
(12) Only ranitidine significantly reduced heartburn frequency and severity.
(13) 1) Symptom relief: Cisapride, usually at a dose of 10 mg t.i.d., was superior to placebo and metoclopramide in relief of daytime and night-time heartburn and regurgitation.
(14) Although heartburn, thought to indicate reflux of gastric contents into the oesophagus, occurs frequently in pregnant women during the last trimester, its aetiology is not clear.
(15) No patient experienced symptoms while swallowing water but one complained of heartburn and one developed symptomatic oesophageal 'spasm' during eating.
(16) Six subjects had mild subjective side effects after zindotrine (headache, dizziness, vertigo, flushing, and heartburn) compared with one report of lightheadedness after placebo.
(17) Logistic regression analysis showed increased risk of suffering heartburn with increasing gestational age (P < 0.0001), pre-pregnancy heartburn (P < 0.0001), parity (P < 0.0001) and inversely with maternal age (P < 0.05) but not with body mass index before pregnancy, race, or weight gain in pregnancy.
(18) Patients with gastroesophageal reflux often describe heartburn after "spicy meals."
(19) Heartburn, the most common presenting symptom, was abolished in 85.5% and epigastric pain in 84.6% of patients.
(20) Despite randomization of endoscopically normal patients, those treated with ranitidine had significantly more heartburn at baseline.
Reflux
Definition:
(a.) Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.
(n.) A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
(2) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
(3) This is a report concerning a unique combination of Alzheimer's disease with the following refluxes: buccosalivary, gastroesophageal, vesicoureteral, urethroprostatic and urethrovesicular, along with neurogenic bowel and neuropathic bladder.
(4) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.
(5) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(6) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
(7) Reflux control, evaluated by clinical appraisal and roentgenograms in all patients and by 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring in some, has been complete in all patients throughout the study.
(8) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
(9) Two of the excluded women refluxed during episodes of hiccough that occurred shortly after induction of anaesthesia.
(10) Early diagnosis and management of gastro-oesophageal reflux may help to minimise these lung function abnormalities.
(11) Trials of these therapeutic schemes promise a higher efficacy of the therapeutic measures for gastroesophageal reflux.
(12) A significant effect for pirenzepine was seen for episodes greater than 5 min (t = 2.61, P = 0.023) and a trend towards significance was seen for total (upright and supine positions combined) percent time of reflux (t = 2.13, P = 0.055).
(13) Importance of the water and acid-barium tests (De Carvalho and Donner tests) was proved in a large series of cases demonstrating an unknown gastro-oesophageal reflux and an associated oesophagitis.
(14) One hundred and two rats were subjected to one of following three surgical procedures: Antiperistaltic duodenogastric reflux (ADGR) was made for duodenal juice to reflux through the pylorus into the stomach.
(15) The diagnosis of G-E reflux was confirmed in all by the acid reflux test; esophagitis was present in 55% of patients submitted to endoscopy; the Bernstein test was positive in 43%.
(16) In none of the 22 followed-up patients (26 organs) did the reflux in the miction cystogram appear.
(17) Results of medical therapy of reflux oesophagitis are disappointing, especially compared to the success obtained in peptic ulcer disease.
(18) For many patients, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a manageable condition.
(19) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
(20) Diagnostic problems were encountered in differentiating among multicystic dysplastic kidneys and ureteropelvic junction obstruction, dilatation owing to reflux or obstruction and lack of visualization of small hypoplastic kidneys.