Dynamic antral scintigraphy to characterize gastric antral motility in functional dyspepsia

UNLABELLED: We evaluated intragastric food distribution and antral motor activity in patients with functional dyspepsia.

METHODS: A standard gastric emptying test and dynamic imaging of the antrum were used to characterize gastric antral motility disturbances and to correlate them with total and compartmental gastric emptying in 25 dyspeptic patients.

RESULTS: We found a 40% prevalence of gastroparesis in functional dyspepsia. Solid gastric emptying delay is indicated by a prolonged lag phase and an increase in frequency and amplitude of gastric contractions, resulting in nonexpulsive antral contractions and/or antropyloric dyscoordination. Food retention in the distal stomach and antral distention appears to account for patients' dyspeptic symptoms.

CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that scintigraphy not only detects abnormalities of food distribution in the stomach but also provides information on antral motor activity noninvasively. Dynamic antral scintigraphy and compartmental gastric emptying are useful tools to define the pathophysiology of dyspeptic patients with or without gastroparesis.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1995

Erschienen:

1995

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine - 36(1995), 9 vom: 10. Sept., Seite 1579-86

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Urbain, J L [VerfasserIn]
Vekemans, M C [VerfasserIn]
Parkman, H [VerfasserIn]
Van Cauteren, J [VerfasserIn]
Mayeur, S M [VerfasserIn]
Van den Maegdenbergh, V [VerfasserIn]
Charkes, N D [VerfasserIn]
Fisher, R S [VerfasserIn]
Malmud, L S [VerfasserIn]
De Roo, M [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article

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Date Completed 03.10.1995

Date Revised 11.03.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM07634200X