Introduction Gastrointestinal (GI) dysmotility disorders can be debilitating and their management challenging. Patients often require feeding tubes to support nutrition, which can be complicated by ...

Operations involving the abdominal cavity (figure 1) result in gastrointestinal dysmotility in all patients to some extent. Operations in the vicinity of the abdomen, including thoraic, orthopaedic, ...

Objectives Patients with dysmotility of the stomach present with a variety of indeterminate symptoms and there is no standard pathway of investigation. We reviewed patients with a negative endoscopy ...

This condition can lead to a range of symptoms, including orthostatic hypotension (a drop in blood pressure when standing), gastrointestinal dysmotility, and other autonomic dysfunctions.

Although there was a long interval between spontaneous clinical presentations with sigmoid volvulus, the patient experienced chronic and persistent gut dysmotility with difficulty in opening his ...

Background: Although gastro-oesophageal reflux is a recognised cause of chronic cough, the role of oesophageal dysmotility is unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of abnormal ...

Introduction Oesophageal dysmotility represents a treatment challenge, with many patients refractory to medical management. There is a lack of evidence for the treatment of oesophageal dysmotility, ...

Conclusions Medium to long-term jejunal feeding via PEG-J or GJ tubes to children with severe GI dysmotility is used for problematic HETF, albeit with time-consuming practical challenges, particularly ...

We report a case of clinical vitamin C deficiency in a patient with severe dysmotility for whom the only source of nutrition was parenteral nutrition with continuous infusion over 24 hours. Methods A ...