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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
May. 30, 2019
Applicants:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Haruhiro Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Haruhiro Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/03 (2006.01); A61B 1/015 (2006.01); A61B 1/273 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/037 (2013.01); A61B 1/015 (2013.01); A61B 1/2736 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for diagnosing gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD), comprising: introducing an endoscope into a stomach of a subject; measuring a pressure in the stomach while supplying gas into the stomach using the endoscope; and determining whether the subject has GERD or not based on a maximum value of the pressure and a wave pattern of a value of the pressure.