Clinical Research
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World J Gastroenterol. Feb 28, 2005; 11(8): 1172-1178
Published online Feb 28, 2005. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i8.1172
Table 3 The response to a test meal of mechanical activity in the stomach of healthy volunteers and of esophagectomized patients with a transposed stomach, expressed as the number of contractions per minute. The electromechanical fractions express the percentage of the dominant frequency that develops mechanical contractions.
Operated patients (n = 21)
Healthy controls (n = 18)
Preprandial
Postprandial
PreprandialPostprandial
TotalSymptomaticAsymptomaticTotalSymptomaticAsymptomatic
Contractions2.16±1.662.24±2.012.03±0.932.19±1.852.14±2.282.26±0.972.2±0.712.36±0.731
Electromechanical fraction68.7±19.467.5±22.570.5±15.862.5±31.054.2±32.376.0±24.878.2±17.675.8±18.7