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INTRODUCTION AND AIM: About 15% of hyperthyroid patients suffer from gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation, nausea and early satiety the problem. Published reports on the topic of gastric emptying in hyperthyroidism are rare and discrepant in their results. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Thirteen patients (8 women, 5 male; aged 41.92+/-1.491 SE yr) with a recently established diagnosis of subclinical hyperthyroidism due to Graves-Basedow disease and as control group 10 age-matched healthy subject (7 women, 3 male; 39.6+/-2.918 SE yrs) participated in this study. Scintigraphic method (food labeled with 99mTc sulfur colloid) was used for measurement of gastric emptying. RESULTS: Gastric emptying time was similar in both subclinical hyperthyroid and control groups (p=0.413). DISCUSSION: There are few studies on the subject of gastric emptying in hyperthyroidism with either delayed emptying or with emptying time similar to controls. In the only one study in subclinical hyperthyroidism, gastric emptying was found to be delayed. We also found that gastric emptying was delayed in subclinical hyperthyroidism. On the basis of this and other studies, we may suggest that in subclinical hyperthyroidism, gastric emptying of solids were similar to that in age-matched healthy control subjects and gastrointestinal dysfunction is dependent on severity of the hyperthyroid state and might be a result of impaired neuro-hormonal regulation. Yet the data must be supported on larger groups.
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J Fam Health Care. 2003;13(4):107-8.
Constipation in children: avoiding hospital admissions by the use of a specialist community nurse.
Bartle D, Finlay F, Atherton F.
Royal United Hospital, Bath.
OBJECTIVE: To review paediatric admissions with a primary diagnosis of constipation to see whether some could have been managed in the community instead. METHOD: A review of the medical notes of all patients admitted with a primary diagnosis of constipation to the children's ward of a district general hospital over a 12-month period. RESULTS: Of 41 admissions (19 girls and 22 boys, age range 6 weeks to 12 years), the average length of stay was less than two nights. CONCLUSION: The short duration of hospital stay implies rapid improvement. It is likely that many of these children could have been managed in the community if suitable resources, such as a community nurse specialising in constipation, were available.
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Dig Dis Sci. 1993 Jun;38(6):1032-9.
Oral [111In]DTPA scintigraphic assessment of colonic transit in constipated subjects.
Roberts JP, Newell MS, Deeks JJ, Waldron DW, Garvie NW, Williams NS.
Surgical Unit, Royal London Hospital, UK.
Patterns of colonic transit were assessed by a simple radioisotopic technique using 3.7 MBq of orally administered [111In]DTPA in 16 control subjects and 37 patients with intractable constipation. Normal subjects showed rapid diffuse spread of isotope through the colon resulting in low activity in all regions of interest (ROI). Activity was lost to feces at 24 hr and was virtually complete by 72 hr (median 94%, range 71-100%). Five constipated patients showed normal transit. Those with colonic inertia (N = 26) showed a significantly slowed geometric center of isotope compared to controls (P < 0.001), falling below the normal range at 48 hr. Percentage activity curves showed the major site of isotope hold-up to be in the transverse colon and splenic flexure. Other constipated patients (N = 6) showed late delay of the geometric center of isotope and accumulation of activity in the descending and rectosigmoid colon, compared to controls, at 96 hr. Oral [111In]DTPA colonic scintigraphy is a useful clinical test in the investigation of constipation.
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