Loss of sympathetic coordination appears to delay gastrointestinal transit in patients with spinal cord injury.

Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) often suffer from many gastrointestinal (GI) complaints, while delayed GI transit exists in these patients. We are interested in whether the lost sympathetic activity is one of the mechanisms leading to disturbed GI transit in these subjects. Using a noninvasive hydrogen breath test representing orocecal transit time (OCTT) to study GI transit, 36 SCI patients and 12 age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers were enrolled in our study.

Undisturbed water gastric emptying in patients of stomach cancer.

Background/aims: Gastric cancer is an infiltrative disease involving deep layers of the stomach. It is of interest whether the stomach motility in gastric cancer patients may be altered. We employed a homemade applied potential tomographic system to study the features of water gastric emptying in gastric cancer patients.

Stomach myoelectrical response of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease receiving omeprazole treatment.

Background And Aim: Proton pump inhibitor treatment is effective for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). It is unknown whether these agents effect any change in the stomach myoelectricity of GERD patients. Electrogastrographic (EGG) recording was used to study the probable effect of omeprazole on GERD patients.

Delayed gastrointestinal transit in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Background And Aim: Disturbed gastrointestinal (GI) motility exists in cirrhotic patients; however, less is known about the character of GI transit in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. It is interesting to study the GI transit in HCC patients and to explore the patient factors modulating GI transit.

Methods: A non-invasive hydrogen breath test, which measured the orocecal transit time (OCTT), was used to study GI transit in 40 HCC patients, 20 cirrhotics and 40 age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers with normal bowel habits.