title: Gastric myoelectrical activity in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine gastric myoelectrical activity in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC).
  
  
  METHODS
  The study comprised 11 female PBC patients (average age 53.4 years, range 43-70) and two aged-matched control groups: 11 (53.4 years, range 37-78) healthy women, and 10 female patients with chronic hepatitis C, CHC (53.9 years, range 35-66), who were examined prior to administration of an antiviral therapy. Every subject underwent an electrogastrographic recording comprising a 30-min interdigestive and a 120-min postprandial period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Abnormal electrogastrograms, containing prolonged epochs of tachygastria in the postprandial phase were found in 2 out of 11 (18.2%) patients having both stage IV of the Scheuer's PBC classification, as well as in 1 patient out of 10 (10%) with CHC at stage F2 according to the METAVIR fibrosis score.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Electrogastrographic abnormalities do not seem to be pathognomonic for the PBC as a disease, but rather would be considered an unspecific sequel of a morbid liver affection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Basic Biomedical Science, School of Pharmacy, Medical University of Silesia, Kasztanowa Street 3, 41-205, Sosnowiec, Poland.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kasicka-Jonderko
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Krusiec-Swidergoł
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jonderko
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Musialik
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gonciarz
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Błońska-Fajfrowska
authors.forename: Zbigniew
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gonciarz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004063:Digestion; D004576:Electromyography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005746:Gastric Emptying; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D019518:Postprandial Period