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Gastroparesis
Gastroparesis II
Postoperative Ileus and Gastric Atony
100
In 2006, the American Board of Surgery and the RRC for surgery recognized the need for surgeons to have formal education and procedural experience in flexible endoscopy and established this as the minimum residency experience requirements for flexible gastrointestinal endoscopy
What is 85
100
Recent data suggests that this functional bowel disorder has a genetic component, is more common in offspring of parents with depression and anxiety syndromes and is associated with structural changes in the brain
What is irritable bowel syndrome
100
this study is generally required to document the presence of gastroparesis
What is radionucleotide gastric emptying study
100
These intestinal cells are targets of neural damage associated with diabetes
What is intestinal cells of Cajal
100
Postoperative ileus has gastric, small bowel, and colonic components. This component of ileus is thought to be the last component to resolve.
What is the colonic component
200
Data cited in a 2006 article revealed that this fraction of residency programs offered formal endoscopy training
What is 2/3
200
The percentage of patients undergoing PEG placement who subsequently develop peritonitis from leakage at the gastrostomy site.
What is 1%
200
Data disclosed by Cherian and coauthors in the journal Clinics of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 2010 demonstrate that this percentage of patients with gastroparesis experienced abdominal pain severe enough to reduce quality of life.
What is 90%
200
According to an article published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America in 2009, up to 7% of patients with diabetes are found to have symptoms of gastroparesis. Along with dietary modifications and optimization of diabetic control, this treatment represents the first line of therapy for gastroparesis.
What is prokinetic agents
200
The use of this drug has demonstrated in prospective randomized trials to lead to earlier return of bowel function after abdominal operations and earlier discharge from the hospital.
What is alvimopan
300
This is the number of upper endoscopies including percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies that are required in order to successfully complete a general surgery training program as of June 30, 2009.
What is 35
300
According to Pruthi and coauthors in an article published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology in 2010, this was the reported rate of overall complications from PEG tube placement.
What is 24%
300
There have been documeted abnormalities of this type of cell within the stomach of patients with gastroparesis. This finding is similar to findings in humans with achalasia.
What is intestinal cells of Cajal
300
According to an article by Hejazi and McCallum, this percentage of gastroapretic patients will be refractory to all treatments.
What is 26%
300
In an article by Welsch in the British Journal of Surgery in 2010, the authors conclude that delayed gastric emtpying is present to some degree in this percentage of patients who underwent a Whipple operation.
What is 50%
400
Based on an article published by Vassiliou and coauthors in the American Journal of Surgery in 2010, they concluded that their data suggests that this is the minimum number of upper endoscopies needed to acquire competency
What is 50
400
Evidence of adrenal insufficiency is found in this percentage of patients with gastroparesis
What is 9%
400
Interventions such as the use of prokinetic drugs, antidepressants, and anxiolytics have been used with varying degrees of success in achieving reductions in symptom severity and improved gastric emptying in patients with gastroparesis. In refractory cases, however, this treatment modality is recommended
What is gastric electrical stimulation
400
Gastric electrical stimulation using two electrodes implanted along this area of the stomach at points nine and ten cm from the pylorus has demonstrated improved gastric emptying in patients with gastroparesis refractory to medical management.
What is the greater curvature
400
In an article published by Chitkara in Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology in 2006, the authors define this disease as the intermittent or continuous swallowing of air resulting in belching, flatulence, and/or abdominal distention.
What is aerophagia
500
Data from 2006 stress that the presence of a standard curriculum for endoscopy training that includes this improves resident endoscopy performance and reduces cost of training
What is simulation
500
Abnormal neural function has been documented in animal models of gastroparesis characterized by loss of this enzyme within the gastric nerves
What is nitric oxide synthase
500
In a study by Uppalapati and coauthors that reviewed factors contributing to need for hospitalization of patients with gastroparesis, gastroparesis related to these two entities accounted for an equal number of admissions and more than 80% of the total admissions.
What is diabetes and idiopathic gastroparesis
500
In an article published in Digestive Disease and Sciences in 2010, a head-to-head comparison of therapies between these two antibiotics and prokinetics demonstrated no reported improvement of patient symptoms between the two medications
What is erythromycin and azithromycin
500
The International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS) divides postoperative gastric emptying dysfunction into three groups depending on the presence of one or more of these three features
What is the use of nasogastic tube, delay in intake of solid food, and the need for prokinetic drugs