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A. R. COLON, MD; J. S. DIPALMA, MD
Department of Pediatrics Georgetown University School of Medicine 3800 Reservoir Rd, NW Washington, DC 20007

Kenneth Levin, MD.

Am J Dis Child. 1992;146(8):895-896.

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Sir.—Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) has become the maladie du jour that is considered responsible for a wide variety of medical miseries. Some are immediately obvious, such as repetitive "spitting-up" in the infant, postprandial esophagodynia, esophagitis, or erosive dysplasia of dental enamel.¹ However, others, such as irritability, chest pain, failure to thrive, sleep aberrations, apnea, bradycardia, stridor, hoarseness, aspiration, and reactive airway disease^2-6 require correlation and confirmation. To this end, our division has, during the last several years, witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of requests for pH probes, with annotations on the consultation form of "suspect GER, please do gold standard."

It has become a major task to convince our residents and fellow attending physicians that the indications for the use of a pH probe are specific and that the information yielded may not answer the questions asked. In the interest of sparing the patient of unnecessary . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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