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Abstract
The aim of this work was to study the effect of
diabetes mellitus on gastric emptying.
This study has been conducted on three groups,
each comprised 10 subjects:
Group A: Non-diabetic control subjects.
Group B: Insulin-dependent diabetic patients.
Group C: Non - insulin - dependent diabetic
patients.
Gastric outlet obstruction was excluded by upper
gastroduodenoscopy and a sample of the gastric
juice was taken for bacteriological examination.
Delayed gastric emptying was confirmed with
barium meal fluoroscopy in two diabetic
patients.
This work presented an incidence of 10% among
all the studied diabetic patients and a ratio of
22.2% among patients with diabetic autonomic
neuropathy.
There was no relation between gastroparesis and
hyperglycemia but the duration of diabetes
appeared to have a factor of great importance.
In this thesis,
gastroparesis was found to be a
complication in longstanding
insulin-dependent
diabetic patients in whom diabetes was poorly
controlled.
Bacterial growth,
in the form of enterococci,
was found in two diabetic patients.
One of them
had gastroparesis, and bacterial growth might be
attributed to gastric stasis.
It is recommended that the subject needs further
study such as complete gastric function tests,
manometric studies,
differentiation between
gastric
studies
gastric emptying of liquids and solids,
biopsy and other bacteriological
including anaerobic culture.