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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-11-10
pubmed:abstractText
Fifty-four patients examined for noncardiac chest pain (NCCP), showing no esophageal motor disorder or gastroesophageal reflux disease compatible with NCCP, were subjected to an intraesophageal balloon distension test and a study of the belching reflex provoked by intraesophageal air injection. Thirty-three control subjects were also studied, allowing us to define high-threshold belchers (group I) as those who belched during two of three 40-ml distensions and low-threshold belchers (group II) as those who did not. The balloon distension test induced NCCP in 64% of the patients in group I, and in 14% of the patients in group II (P < 0.01). High-threshold belching was a factor favoring the positivity of the balloon distension test. This result supports the hypothesis that esophageal distension by air due to a belching disorder may be the mechanism responsible for NCCP in some patients with an abnormal sensitivity to balloon distension.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0163-2116
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1909-14
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Role of upper esophageal reflex and belch reflex dysfunctions in noncardiac chest pain.
pubmed:affiliation
Service de Gastroentérologie et d'Hépatologie, Hôpital A. Michallon, Grenoble, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article