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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

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I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. 2013-0421 Tighe M, Afzal NA, Bevan A, et al. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

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Previously healthy and developmentally and neurologically normal children with two brief self resolved seizures within a 24 hour period, so technically a complex febrile seizure, can be discharged home with as needed neurology referral if the family and you are comfortable with that plan. These are autosomal dominant seizures.

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