A Non-Invasive Technique for Long-Term Monitoring of Gastroesophageal Reflux-A Pilot Study.

Marco Laracca, Gianfranco Miele, Luca Podestà, Silvia Sangiovanni

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marco LaraccaDepartment of Astronautics, Electrical and Energetics Engineering (DIAEE), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0002-7118

Gianfranco MieleDepartment of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, 03043 Cassino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7571-6327

Luca PodestàDepartment of Astronautics, Electrical and Energetics Engineering (DIAEE), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy.

Silvia SangiovanniDepartment of Astronautics, Electrical and Energetics Engineering (DIAEE), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1083-348X

Sapienza University of Rome · ITUniversità degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many people suffer from gastric or gastroesophageal reflux disorder (GERD) due to a malfunction of the cardia, the valve between the esophagus and the stomach. GERD is a syndrome caused by the ascent of gastric juices and bile from the stomach. This article proposes a non-invasive impedance measurement method and demonstrates the correlation between GERD and impedance variation between appropriately chosen points on the patient's chest. This method is presented as an alternative to the most widely accepted diagnostic techniques for reflux, such as pH-metry, pH-impedance measurement, and esophageal manometry, which are invasive because they use a probe that is inserted through a nostril and reaches down to the esophagus.

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Gastroesophageal RefluxElectric ImpedanceHumansManometryPilot ProjectsStomachThoraxbio-impedance measurementbiomedical measurementgastroesophageal reflux

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PMID38067832

DOI10.3390/s23239459

PMCPMC10708781

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