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Impaired accommodation of proximal stomach to a meal in functional dyspepsia

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In patients with functional dyspepsia, scanning by a novel ultrasonographic method was carried out to investigate postprandial accommodation of the proximal stomach. Twenty patients with functional dyspepsia and 20 controls were scanned fasting in a sitting position after drinking 500 ml meat soup. Images were recorded up to 25 min after the ingestion period using an ultrasound sector scanner with a 3.25-MHz transducer. The area in a sagittal section and the maximal diameter in an oblique frontal section were chosen as the main variables for calculating the emptying fraction of the proximal stomach, defined as: (aV 2.5min-aV actual/aV 2.5min. All subjects were asked to score total symptoms (1–9) provoked by the meal. From 7.5 to 25 min after the ingestion period the patients exhibited both smaller area in the sagittal section (P<0.018) and shorter diameter in the frontal section (P<0.046) compared with healthy controls, and they suffered more symptoms in response to the meal (P=0.002). Dyspeptic patients revealed higher emptying fractions (P=0.0005, ANOVA), andH. pylori status did not influence the emptying fractions. Diagnostic sensitivity of the method at 20 min postprandially was 70% and the specificity was 65%. Patients with functional dyspepsia have impaired accommodation of the proximal stomach to a meal, temporarily related to symptom induction.

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Gilja, O.H., Hausken, T., Wilhelmsen, I. et al. Impaired accommodation of proximal stomach to a meal in functional dyspepsia. Digest Dis Sci 41, 689–696 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02213124

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