위·식도 역류증상이 있는 환자의 바륨조영검사에서 방사선학적 소견 및 발생에 관한 연구

Research about the Radiological View and the Occurrence of Gastroesophageal Reflux Symptoms from Barium Reflux Study

Our object for this research was to make the data, sorted by gender and age, for the patients who came to hospital with gastroesophageal reflux symptoms by checking the presence of gastroesophageal reflux and degree of reflux. From July 19, 2004 to June 30, 2005, we checked the records of the patients who visited OPD of our hospital with gastroesophageal reflux symptoms. There were 537 patients who visited during this period, and we used all patients records except 1 patient who did not go through the barium reflux study because of trachea aspiration. We sorted the data by gender, age, presence of gastroesophageal reflux and degree of reflux. By gender, male (89.0%) had more gastroesophageal reflux disease than female (83.1%)(p<0.05). In case of male patients (total 217 patients), 23 patients (10.6%) had normal reflux, 111 patients (51.2%) had minor reflux, and 83 patients (38.2%) had major reflux. In case of female patient (total 319 patients), 54 patients(14.4%) had normal reflux, 195 patients (61.1%) had minor reflux, and 70 patients (21.9%) had major reflux (p<0.01). Presence of gastroesophageal reflux by age, 60s patients had 89.7% of patients had disease, 30s patients had 89.0% of patients had disease, and 50s patients had 86.8% of patients had disease (p<0.05). By age, under age 10(37.7%) were the highest rates for normal reflux, 30s (70.3%) and 40s (61.1%) were the highest rates of minor reflux. For major reflux, 60s (42.6%) and 70s (38.5%) had highest rates. We found that occurrence frequency and degree of reflux were different by gender and age. It is concerned that the study for different diagnosis, treatment, and prevention will be needed for the gastroesophageal reflux disease patients by gender and age.