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Letters |1 May 1997

Chest Pain and the Esophagus

Ole Frobert, MD, PhD; Peter Funch-Jensen, MD, DSc; Jens P. Bagger, MD, DSc

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  • Skejby University Hospital, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark Hvidovre Hospital, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark St. George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 ORE, United Kingdom
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With respect to reflux, quite a few of our patients had dyspeptic symptoms, but this reached statistical significance only in the case of dysphagia. Only one patient received omeprazole at study entry. We admit that patients with overt gastrointestinal symptoms were probably referred to a gastroenterologic center, but it is unlikely that patients with severe chest pain were not evaluated in the cardiac clinic and thus were not possible candidates for our study.
Because many variables can be extracted from 24-hour multiple-channel esophageal monitoring, it will always be possible to find single patients who exceed the mean ±...
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Frobert O, Funch-Jensen P, Bagger JP. Chest Pain and the Esophagus. Ann Intern Med. 1997;126:740–741. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-9-199705010-00020

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1997;126(9):740-741.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-9-199705010-00020

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