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who, what, when and how of Gastroparesis
< b>Gastroparesis: Gastroparesis is a medical condition in which the muscle
of the stomach is paralyzed by a disease of either the stomach muscle itself or
the nerves controlling the muscle. As a consequence, food and secretions do not
empty normally from the stomach, and there is nausea and vomiting. Abdominal bloating
and pain can result.
Gastroparesis may be associated with paralysis of other parts of the gastrointestinal
tract (the small intestine and colon).
The most common cause of gastroparesis is diabetes mellitus. (So often is gastroparesis
due to diabetes that there is a term, gastroparesis diabeticorum, that refers exclusively
to it).
A nuclear medicine test designed to study gastric emptying is the most common
means of diagnosis of gastroparesis.
Gastroparesis is treated with medications to increase the contractions of the
stomach's muscle, occasionally with surgery, and experimentally with electrical
pacing.
The word "gastroparesis" is compounded from "gastro", pertaining to the stomach
+ "paresis", a loss of strength = a loss of strength of the stomach = stomach paralysis.
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