[The relationship between functional symptoms of the digestive tract and the motility of the small intestine].
Although abnormalities of intestinal motility are usually considered to underly functional gastrointestinal symptoms, objective evidence of such a relation is controversial. We performed manometric studies using perfused catheters in 26 patients with such symptoms. A marked variation in duration of cyclic motor activity (range 34 to 168 min) was observed; motility was absent in 5 patients. No clear relation between symptoms and motility pattern was demonstrated. Thus, altered intestinal motility is not clearly related to functional gastrointestinal complaints.
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Departmento de Medicina (Hospital JJ Aguirre), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004066:Digestive System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors
Relación entre síntomas functionales del aparato digestivo y motilidad del intestino delgado.