Naoko Komatsuzaki, Naoki Hashizume, Saki Sakamoto, Hirotomo Nakahara, Shiori Tsuruhisa, Daisuke Masui, Yoshinori Koga, Naruki Higashidate, Nobuyuki Saikusa, Shinji Ishii, Suguru Fukahori, Yushiro Yamashita, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Minoru Yagi, Tatsuru Kaji
PURPOSE: We explored factors affecting gastric emptying in neurologically impaired (NI) patients using the 13 C-acetate breath test. METHODS: Twenty-four NI patients were classified by the presence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), which was treated by fundoplication plus gastrostomy, or the absence of GERD, which was treated by gastrostomy alone, along with gastric malposition involving cascade stomach and organoaxial gastric volvulus (OGV). Gastric emptying parameters (GEPs), which were the emptying half time (T 1/2 , minute), the lag phase time (T lag , minute), and the gastric emptying coefficient (GEC), were measured before and after surgery...
February 16, 2024: Kurume Medical Journal