Publications by authors named "Bruijs P"
The aim of our study was to examine the prevalence of gastric myoelectrical disturbances in relation to gastrointestinal motility abnormalities in patients with functional dyspepsia, using simultaneous electrogastrography and antroduodenojejunal manometry. We carried out electrogastrography in 20 patients with functional dyspepsia and in 20 healthy volunteers. In 10 of these patients and in 10 of the volunteers antroduodenojejunal manometry was performed simultaneously.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectrogastrography records electrical potential variations brought about by myoelectrical activity of the stomach. Abnormal myoelectrical rhythms such as tachygastrias may also be detected. Electrogastrography provides little information on gastric motility and emptying.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn patients with diabetes mellitus and gastroparesis, dysrhythmias of gastric myoelectrical activity, especially tachygastrias, are thought to be involved in the pathogenesis of dyspeptic symptoms. Using surface electrogastrography we studied the prevalence of these abnormalities, and their relationships to dyspeptic symptoms and the extent of cardiac autonomic neuropathy in 30 euglycemic patients with type I diabetes mellitus and 12 controls. Neither in the fasting nor in the postprandial state were differences in mean frequency of gastric electrical control activity and its variability found between patients and controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aims: Blood glucose concentration has been shown to be an important factor in gastric motility. However, the effect of hyperglycemia on gastric myoelectrical activity has not yet been studied in patients with diabetes.
Methods: Surface electrogastrography was performed in eight patients with type I diabetes mellitus under normoglycemic and hyperglycemic conditions (glucose clamp technique) and in eight normoglycemic control subjects.