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ReviewCurrent gastroenterology reports2016

How to Optimally Apply Impedance in the Evaluation of Esophageal Dysmotility.

Amit Patel, C Prakash Gyawali

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Review in Current gastroenterology reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Future perspectives in esophageal manometry.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Amit PatelDivision of Gastroenterology, Duke University School of Medicine and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 704 15th Street no. 221, Durham, NC, 27705, USA.
C Prakash GyawaliDivision of Gastroenterology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Ave., Campus Box 8124, Saint Louis, MO, 63110, USA. cprakash@dom.wustl.edu.

Funding

CLINICAL/LABORATORY TRAINING ACADEMIC GASTROENTEROLOGYT32DK007130 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MATTHEW AARON CIORBA · 1986 to 2026
$8.3M
NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007130
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The utilization of impedance technology has enhanced our understanding and assessment of esophageal dysmotility. Esophageal high-resolution manometry (HRM) catheters incorporated with multiple impedance electrodes help assess esophageal bolus transit, and the combination is termed high-resolution impedance manometry (HRIM). Novel metrics have been developed with HRIM-including esophageal impedance integral ratio, bolus flow time, nadir impedance pressure, and impedance bolus height-that augments the assessment of esophageal bolus transit. Automated impedance-manometry (AIM) analysis has enhanced understanding of the relationship between bolus transit and pressure phenomena. Impedance-based metrics have improved understanding of the dynamics of esophageal bolus transit into four distinct phases, may correlate with symptomatic burden, and can assess the adequacy of therapy for achalasia. An extension of the use of impedance involves impedance planimetry and the functional lumen imaging probe (FLIP), which assesses esophageal biophysical properties and distensibility, and could detect patterns of esophageal contractility not seen on HRM. Impedance technology, therefore, has a significant impact on esophageal function testing in the present day.

Indexed as

Electric ImpedanceEsophageal AchalasiaEsophageal Motility DisordersEsophagusGastroesophageal RefluxGastrointestinal TransitHumansManometryEsophageal bolus transitEsophageal dysmotilityFunctional lumen imaging probe (FLIP)High-resolution impedance manometry (HRIM)High-resolution manometry (HRM)Impedance

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PMID27738965
PMCPMC5457282

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