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Ultrasonography for Evaluation of Patients with Suspected Gastroparesis

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Ultrasonography represents a relatively simple, non-invasive, inexpensive and readily available technique for the assessment of gastrointestinal motor function which has the capacity to assess structural and functional abnormalities. While scintigraphy remains the “gold standard” for the measurement of gastric emptying, it is associated with a radiation burden and requires expensive equipment. Two dimensional (2D) ultrasonography is now used clinically to quantify gastric emptying. Arguably of greater significance is that the use of ultrasonography has also provided fundamental insights into the pathophysiology of disordered gastric motor function – it has been used to evaluate gastric distension/accommodation, antral contractility, mechanical deformation (strain), transpyloric flow, intragastric distribution as well as gastric emptying. In this section, the role of ultrasonography in the measurement of gastric emptying, distal and proximal stomach area (accommodation), transpyloric flow and gastric motility, is discussed.

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  1. Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, 500, Australia

    Karen L. Jones PhD (Associate Professor)

  2. Division of Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Diana Gentilcore Dip App Sci (Nuc Med), Grad Dip Med Rad, PhD

  3. Gastroenterology Section, National Centre for Ultrasound in Gastroenterology, Haukeland University Hospital, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Trygve Hausken MD, PhD (Professor)

  4. Department of Medicine, National Centre for Ultrasound in Gastroenterology, Haukeland University Hospital, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Odd Helge Gilja MD, PhD (Professor)

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Jones, K.L., Gentilcore, D., Hausken, T., Gilja, O.H. (2012). Ultrasonography for Evaluation of Patients with Suspected Gastroparesis. In: Parkman, H., McCallum, R. (eds) Gastroparesis. Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-552-1_12

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