gastric reflux


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gastric reflux

n.
A backflow of the contents of the stomach into the esophagus, caused by relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter.
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Gastric problems including gastric reflux disease and having sour taste in mouth when wake up were also associated with tooth erosion.
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However, the researchers failed to look for other risk factors common in patients with gastric reflux that could have increased the risk of heart attack, such as diabetes or obesity.
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2,3) Among the patients frequently missed are ones that present with gastric reflux or women under the age of 55.
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Another son had a pelvic deformity corrected as a child, and daughter Julie lost one twin to miscarriage and has another child with gastric reflux.
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The identification of gastric reflux as a risk factor for throat and vocal cord cancers, however, may have implications in terms of risk stratification and identification of high-risk patients.
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Gastric reflux affects as many as one in five people in Western countries and is on the increase in Asia.
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Considering diagnosis and treatment in turn, they examine such topics as new onset focal and generalized epilepsy in an elderly patient, epileptic falling seizures associated with seizure-induced cardiac asystole in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy, epileptic negative myoclonus in benign rolandic epilepsy, carefully combining medications for women with gastric reflux, and functional hemispherotomy for drug-resistant post-traumatic epilepsy.
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In the second, gastric reflux irritates the esophageal tissue enough to evoke laryngeal reflexes without ever reaching the larynx--a vagally mediated response associated with symptoms such as chronic cough, throat-clearing sensations, and bronchoconstriction.
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