Characteristics of continuous esophageal pH-metering in infants with gastroesophageal reflux and apparent life-threatening events

European Journal of Pediatric Surgery : Official Journal of Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgery ... [et Al] = Zeitschrift Für Kinderchirurgie
P GorrotxategiA M Ruiz Benito

Abstract

Episodes of apnea during the first year of life have been classified with the term "Apparent Life-Threatening Events" (ALTE). Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) has been accepted to be one of the factors which can favor ALTE. The aim of this work is to study the continuous 24 h gastroesophageal pH-metering (fundamentally the Reflux Index [RI] and the Area Under Curve [AUC] parameters in three different periods of time: total pH-metering, pH-metering excluding the first two post-prandial hours, and pH-metering during sleep time, for 24 infants, 14 with ALTE and 10 without it). Between these two groups (with and without ALTE) there were no significant differences in the total pH-metering concerning the RI (2 +/- 1.2 vs 5.6 +/- 7.5 p > 0.05) and concerning the AUC (24.9 +/- 14.4 vs 67.4 +/- 84 p > 0.05), but in the analysis of the sleep period, the RI (p < 0.05) and the AUC (p < 0.01) both showed significant differences in the group of infants without ALTE. These results confirm that pH-metering study during sleep is the procedure of choice for recognizing infants with ALTE.

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