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Dumping syndrome in infancy is a rare complication following gastric surgery. We describe an 11-monthold infant affected by recurrent peptic oesophagitis who underwent a combined Nissen fundoplication and pyloroplasty. Early dumping symptoms such as irritability, pallor, sweating, abdominal distension and watery diarrhoea were observed postoperatively after bolus feeding. Gastric emptying, measured after the administration of 150 ml of regular cow milk mixed with 200 μCi (8 MBq) of technetrum-99m sulfur colloid (99mTc-SC), demonstrated an early rapid and massive emptying of the isotopes into the small intestine, followed by duodenogastric reflux and a second wave of emptying and reflux at 9 min. The initial pattern of gastric emptying and duodenogastric reflux was followed by a slow emptying phase with half-emptying time of 81 min. Isotope studies should be used to investigate motility disorders caused by this type of anti-reflux operation.
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Pittschieler, K. Dumping syndrome after combined pyloroplasty and fundoplication. Eur J Pediatr 150, 410–412 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02093720
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02093720