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Gastric emptying of combined liquid-solid meals in healed duodenal ulcer

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The gastric emptying rates of combined liquid and solid radioisotopically labeled meals in 47 healed duodenal ulcer subjects and 17 healthy control subjects are compared. No significant differences were found between the groups in emptying slopes and the emptying half-times or in the percent retention values at any of the counting intervals for either the liquid or solid meals. These results are compatible with the observation that the rapid gastric emptying in many patients with duodenal ulcer is associated with the disease and that healing results in a return to normal gastric emptying rates. However, since gastric empyting rates during active ulceration were not determined in our patients, a more definitive interpretation awaits a study comparing emptying rates obtained during and after healing of active ulceration in the same patient.

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  1. Department of Medicine and Nuclear Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, 500 Foothill Drive, 84148, Salt Lake City, Utah

    J. G. Moore MD, B. Mcintyre BS & N. Alazraki MD

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The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the Veterans Administration Medical Research Service and the G.D. Searle Co. for providing support for this study.

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Moore, J.G., Mcintyre, B. & Alazraki, N. Gastric emptying of combined liquid-solid meals in healed duodenal ulcer. Digest Dis Sci 30, 1134–1138 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01314046

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