Introduction The NIH Gastroparesis Clinical Research Consortium (GpCRC) was started in 2005 to improve the understanding of the pathogenesis and natural history of gastroparesis of all etiologies and to advance the diagnosis and therapy of patients affected with this troubling…
Although nausea, vomiting, early satiety, and postprandial fullness are the main symptoms of gastroparesis, abdominal pain can be a prominent symptom in some patients with gastroparesis. Treatment of abdominal pain in patients with gastroparesis can be particularly difficult, as often…
Introduction Gastroparesis is a chronic disorder characterized by delayed gastric emptying in the absence of mechanical obstruction . The diagnosis of gastroparesis is confirmed in a symptomatic patient by demonstrating delayed gastric emptying with no organic lesions on upper endoscopy…
Introduction Gastric motility is important for the proper processing and gastric emptying (GE) of an ingested meal . The gastric motility responses to an ingested meal involve actions of several different regions of the stomach. These include initial proximal gastric…