Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition
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J. Pediatr. Gastroenterol. Nutr. · Jul 2003
Gastric electric activity assessed by electrogastrography and gastric emptying scintigraphy in adolescents with eating disorders.
Patients with eating disorders can refer to a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms, sometimes to justify reduced food intake and vomiting. The authors investigated whether adolescent patients with eating disorders and dyspeptic symptoms have altered gastric electric activity and abnormal gastric emptying as assessed respectively by electrogastrography and scintigraphy. ⋯ Adolescent patients with bulimia who complain of dyspeptic symptoms have documentable abnormalities of gastric electric activity and emptying, whereas their counterparts with anorexia, probably owing to their shorter disease duration, do not.