Evaluation of patients with postsurgical syndromes.
The evaluation of patients with postgastrectomy or other postsurgical syndromes must be thorough. A proper medical or surgical treatment plan should be based on a thoughtful physiologic examination, not just an anatomic evaluation. Procedures such as vagotomy testing and intestinal transit studies may identify or exclude causes (e.g., acid hypersecretion, poor gastric emptying) of postsurgical syndromes and should address the cause of the problem, not the effect.
Thirlby
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University of Washington, Seattle.
D006801:Humans; D011178:Postgastrectomy Syndromes / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D012086:Reoperation