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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Gastroparesis"”.
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Improvement of Gastroparesis Management By Addressing Challenges in Drug Metabolism: Studies with Metabolite Identification, Reaction Phenotyping and In Vitro Drug-Drug Interactions
Gastroparesis is a disorder characterized by delayed gastric emptying due to chronic abnormal gastric motility. Prokinetic agents such as domperidone and metoclopramide are the cornerstone in treatment of gastroparesis. Although these medications have been used for decades, essential information …
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Factors governing gastrointestinal motility
… and the other a group of patients with proven gastroparesis treated with gastric neuromodulation (GNM). Parallel to the above I conducted studies of indirect calorimetry in these patients in an attempt to determine if changes in energy expenditure which occur as a consequence of weight loss …
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Gastrointestinal Disorders in Women
… clones related to Clostridium clostridioforme. Gastroparesis and esophageal dysmotility are common complications of diabetes mellitus in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. In a cross-sectional study, we evaluated esophageal and gastric motility, GI symptoms, secondary complications, and …
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BIOENGINEERING CHITOSAN-BASED TUBULAR NEURO-MUSCULAR GASTROINTESTINAL TISSUE
… diseases affect the tract including cancer, gastroparesis, short bowel syndrome and Hirschsprung’s disease. Other diseases of the gut involve segments along with their adjacent sphincters. The most common treatment in all these conditions requires surgical resections of the diseased segment …
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Glycaemic Response in Relation to Gastric Emptying and Satiety in Health and Disease
… diabetes mellitus patients with diabetic gastroparesis by reducing the GER even further.
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Measurement of Autonomic Function in Renal Disease and Diabetes
… resulting in consequences ranging from gastroparesis to sudden death. New technologies to detect dysautonomia, such as 24-hr heart rate variability, are being evaluated and compared to traditional evoked tests. These advances have, however, lead to a lack of standardization in testing …
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New Foundations for Pacing the Stomach
… digestion. Functional motility diseases, such as gastroparesis, chronic unexplained nausea and vomiting, and functional dyspepsia, are associated with slow-wave dysrhythmias. The use of external electrical impulses to correct disordered cardiac rhythms is well established. Similar techniques have …
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miR-10b Rescues Diabetes and GI Dysmotility Associated with a Leaky Gut
… and other specific GI motility disorders such as gastroparesis. These disorders are heterogeneous and are intertwined with several proposed pathophysiological mechanisms, such as altered gut motility, intestinal barrier dysfunction, gut immune dysfunction, visceral hypersensitivity, altered GI …
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Relationships of gastric emptying with glycaemia, insulin secretion and the incretin effect in health and type 2 diabetes
… as a substantial proportion of patients have gastroparesis (i.e. delayed gastric emptying) while in some gastric emptying is abnormally accelerated. This has profound implications for control of glycaemia in diabetes, as even minor variations in the rate of entry of nutrients into the small …
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Using silver spike point needle-free electro-acupuncture for postoperative pain management
… respiratory depression, constipation, vomiting, gastroparesis, and central nervous system depression including somnolence and consciousness disturbance. Opioid-related side effects often occur post-operatively, and are related to the total dosage of opioid medication. Non-pharmaceutical products …