Gastric emptying in control subjects and patients with duodenal ulcer before and after vagotomy.
Gut
; 17(7): 542-50, 1976 Jul.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-964687
ABSTRACT
The emptying of a solid meal labelled with Indium 113mDTPA from the stomach was studied with a gamma camera in 26 normal subjects, 27 patients with duodenal ulcer, on 41 occasions after truncal vagotomy and pyloroplasty and 38 times after highly selective vagotomy. Applying the method of principal component analysis to the results, differences were detected between control and duodenal ulcer subjects and two probable subgroups of duodenal ulcer were observed. Half emptying times did not reveal these patterns. After vagotomy, delayed emptying was general at one week. At one month, patients after highly selective vagotomy had a more normal result than those with truncal vagotomy and pyloroplasty (TV), but by six months no significant difference in overall emptying rate was found, although changes in the pattern of gastric emptying persisted in some patients after TV.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Stomach
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Vagotomy
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Duodenal Ulcer
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Gut
Year:
1976
Document type:
Article