A useful method to diagnose chest pain with foregut symptoms

Friday, February 20, 2009 - 08:15 in Health & Medicine

Recent reports have indicated that recurrent chest pain is often a result of oesophageal motility disorders or gastrooesophageal reflux diseases (GERD), which is known as oesophageal chest pain. However, very few studies have been performed about oesophageal manometric studies, 24-h intra-oesophageal pH monitoring and a Holter electrocardiography for the differential diagnosis of chest pain caused by oesophageal dysfunctional and/or myocardial ischaemia...

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