Gastroparesis: New insights into an old disease

Table 1 Conditions able to provoke gastroparesis

Conditions able to provoke gastroparesis
Diabetes mellitus
Post-surgical conditions (vagotomy or vagus nerve damage after fundoplication, esophagectomy, gastrectomy, pancreatectomy, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, heart or lung transplant)
Connective tissue disease (including scleroderma, amyloidosis, Sjogren’s syndrome, LES, polymyositis/dermatomyositis)
Eosinophilic gastroenteritis; infiltrative enteritis
Eating disorders (anorexia nervosa or bulimia)
End-stage renal disease
Hypothyroidism
Infectious diseases (recent viral infection by CMV, EBV, VZV; Chagas disease)
Malignancy (pancreas, lymphoma, paraneoplastic syndrome)
Mesenteric ischemia
Myopathies and muscular dystrophies (myotonic dystrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy)
Nervous system disorders (myasthenia gravis, Parkinson’s disease, Guillain Barre syndrome, multiple sclerosis, dysautonomia)
Stroke

LES: Low esophageal sphincter; CMV: Cytomegalovirus; EBV: Epstein-Barr virus; VZV: Varicella zoster virus.