Neurotensin and the dumping syndrome

Elevation of plasma neurotensin in the dumping syndrome.

1. The pathophysiology of the dumping syndrome is poorly understood. Plasma levels of four small intestinal hormones have been measured after an oral glucose provocation test in 19 patients with dumping symptoms and in matched controls. 2. Plasma levels of neurotensin, a newly discovered highly potent, hypotensive ileal peptide, were significantly increased in symptomatic patients compared with...

دمپینگ سندرم (Dumping Syndrome)

Aetiological Factors and Therapeutic Approach to the Dumping Syndrome.

to describe the postprandial symptom-complex seen in patients after gastric surgery. The symptoms are of gastro-intestinal and vasomotor origin with variable predominance. They develop within 30 minutes of eating and are particularly severe after the ingestion of carbohydrates. Therapy has largely been limited to dietary and fluid restrictions and postprandial recumbency. The reported incidence...

The role of serotonin in the "dumping syndrome".

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Is the Dumping Syndrome a Problem After Standard Pancreatoduodenectomy?

Linehan IP, Russell RCG and Hobsley M (1988) The dumping syndrome after pancreatoduodenectomy. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, 167:114-118 Some patients have postoperative nutritional problems after a pancreatoduodenectomy. These problems have been attributed without objective evidence to the partial gastrectomy that is performed at the time of the pancreatoduodenectomy. The dumping syndrome ...