Blood serum immunoreactive gastrin level in infants with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
Blood serum immunoreactive gastrin level (IRG) was measured in infants with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis before and after corrective surgery and in a control group children of corresponding age. No significant difference in IRG level was found between the stenotic infants and the control group. In the stenotic infants IRG values were higher at the seventh day after than before the operation and significantly higher in those infants in whom gain of body weight was noted during that time as compared with the infants without gain of weight. These observations remain in agreement with the view that the main role of gastrin in infants is trophic action on the mucosa of the upper gastrointestinal tract.
D001835:Body Weight; D005755:Gastrins / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D007223:Infant; D011707:Pyloric Stenosis / Q000097:blood* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D011863:Radioimmunoassay
D005755:Gastrins