Gastrointestinal symptoms, motility, and transit after the Roux-en-Y operation
Journal Article
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· Am. J. Gastroenterol.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5289729
Roux-en-Y patients have symptoms that vary from almost none to inability to tolerate oral feedings. This study was designed to determine whether there is a relationship between a patient's symptoms and the function of the gastric remnant or the Roux-limb. Gastric remnant and Roux-limb emptying were studied in eight patients with technetium-99m-labeled oatmeal and Roux-limb motor activity was measured with a water-perfused manometry system. We found that gastric emptying was rarely significantly slowed, but emptying of the Roux-limb was delayed in several patients. We also found that there was a rough correlation between the patient's symptoms and the degree of abnormal motility found in the Roux-limb. There is no known reason for these abnormalities in Roux-limb function in some patients after a Roux-en-Y, but our finding of worse abnormalities in those who had multiple previous gastric surgeries suggests that the symptoms and dysfunction may be related to the number of surgeries, as well as to the type of surgery.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5289729
- Journal Information:
- Am. J. Gastroenterol.; (United States), Journal Name: Am. J. Gastroenterol.; (United States) Vol. 83:4; ISSN AJGAA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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TECHNETIUM 99
TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES
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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ANOREXIA
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BILE
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BODY
BODY FLUIDS
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES
DISEASES
DYNAMIC FUNCTION STUDIES
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOMERIC NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS
ISOTOPES
MATERIALS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
PATHOGENESIS
PATIENTS
RADIOISOTOPES
STOMACH
SYMPTOMS
TECHNETIUM 99
TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES
TRACER TECHNIQUES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES