Rapid Gastric Emptying

Hi.  My question is about the gastric emptying study where you eat a small amount of food and it is tracked until the stomach has emptied.  Has there been a change in the last six months in how the results of that test are determined as either normal or abnormal in terms of rapid emptying?  In other words, could a test result have been considered normal six months ago but now is considered abnormal because of new standards in rapid emptying?

[Kevin Pho, MD]

I am not aware of new standards in resulting a gastric emptying scan.

To my knowledge, a result from six months ago would be the same if the study performed today had identical results.

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Kevin Pho, M.D.
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