Abstract

Charles W Randall1, Jonathan Zaga-Galante2*, Adriana Vergara-Suarez3 and Carlo M Taboada4 1Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Ctr, San Antonio CEO, Gastroenterology Research of America, USA 2American Society of Clinical Oncology member, American College of Physicians member, Anahuac University Mexico City, Mexico 3American Society of Clinical Oncology member, Anahuac University Mexico City, Mexico 4Gastroenterology Research of America, USA

Highlights

  • Dyspepsia is a common symptom presenting to clinicians

  • For the past 30 years Kenneth Koch and Robert Stern have modernized electrogastrography into the technique used today. Their works have shown the different motility patterns associated with disorders such as motion sickness, dysmotility-like dyspepsia, pregnancy, diabetes, functional dyspepsia, and chronic nausea syndromes [6,7,8,9,10]

  • Classification of gastric dysrhythmias is dependent upon an understanding of gastric myoelectrical activity

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Summary

Introduction

Dyspepsia is a common symptom presenting to clinicians. Two-thirds of these patients have no discernible organic cause while the remaining third have a cause that once eliminated results in resolution of symptoms. The Rome III committee has suggested that the term non-ulcer dyspepsia no longer be used for patients without an organic etiology. The preferred term is idiopathic dyspepsia [1]. Symptom complexes can be classic, ulcer-like dyspepsia, dysmotility- like ( early satiety, nausea, and post-prandial discomfort), or undifferentiated. Research has shown that gastric arrhythmias are responsible for many cases of idiopathic dyspepsia. This paper reviews the basics of electrogastrography and the management of dysrhythmias

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Technical Aspects of the EGG
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