Published online Sep 15, 1996. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v2.iSuppl1.216
Revised: January 21, 1996
Accepted: July 19, 1996
Published online: September 15, 1996
AIM: The functional dyspepsia (FD) was divided into different groups according to different clinic symptoms. In an attempt to explore other pathologic mechanism except of motility disorder, we studied the gastric motility change of these clinic symptom groups.
METHODS: 82 healthy subjects were studied as control, the half gastric emptying time (T1/2) of all the patients and control subjects were measured by magnetogastrogram.
RESULTS: The T1/2 (x¯ ± SD) of FD patients was 88.6 ± 37.6 min, it showed a significant delay as compared with the controls that was 51.79 ± 21.46 min (P < 0.01). The gastric emptying delayed patients of FD patients accounted for 60.4%. This conclusion is same compared with the methods of other articles about FD. In 588 FD patients of this report, we present 24 cases of reflux type (4.1%), 355 cases of motion disorder type (60.4%), 144 cases of ulcer type (24.5%), 10 cases of swallow gas type (1.7%), 55 cases specific type (9.4%). The T1/2 of all types were different: reflux type (105.2 ± 39.5), motion type (91.06 ± 38.5 min), ulcer symptoms type (81.7 ± 32.4 min), swallow gas type (96.2 ± 33.5 min), specific type (82.78 ± 38.9 min), the reflux type and motion type were compared with ulcer type separately, the results showed significant difference.
CONCLUSION: We suggest that maybe exist other cause and mechanism about pathologic mechanism of FD except of gastric emptying function abnormality of different level.