Rahul Pannala, Kumar Krishnan, Rabindra R Watson, Marcelo F Vela, Barham K Abu Dayyeh, Amit Bhatt, Manoop S Bhutani, Juan Carlos Bucobo, Vinay Chandrasekhara, Andrew P Copland, Pichamol Jirapinyo, Nikhil A Kumta, Ryan J Law, John T Maple, Joshua Melson, Mansour A Parsi, Erik F Rahimi, Monica Saumoy, Amrita Sethi, Guru Trikudanathan, Arvind J Trindade, Julie Yang, David R Lichtenstein
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Esophageal function testing is an integral component of the evaluation of refractory GERD and esophageal motility disorders. This review summarizes the current technologies available for esophageal function testing, including the functional luminal imaging probe (FLIP), high-resolution esophageal manometry (HRM), and multichannel intraluminal impedance (MII) and pH monitoring. METHODS: We performed a MEDLINE, PubMed, and MAUDE database literature search to identify pertinent clinical studies through March 2021 using the following key words: esophageal manometry, HRM, esophageal impedance, FLIP, MII, and esophageal pH testing...
January 2022: VideoGIE