Diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency

Table 1 The ¹³C-mixed triglycerides breath test according to Domínguez-Muñoz et al[44]

The patient fasts from midnight

Twenty minutes before the test, 10 mg of metoclopramide is ingested

A baseline breath sample is taken

At time 0, 250 mg of 13C-mixed triglycerides mixed with 16 g of fat on a piece of toasted bread is ingested, together with a glass (200 mL) of water

Breath samples are taken every 15 (or 30) min for 6 h

Finally, 13CO2/12CO2 is measured in collected breath samples by mass spectrometry or isotope-selective nondispersive infrared spectrometry