Antroduodenal Manometry in Children and Adults with Severe Nonulcer Dyspepsia

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Di Lorenzo C, Hyman PE, Flores AF, Kashyap P, Tomomasa T, Lo S, Snape WJ Jr. Antroduodenal manometry in children and adults with severe nonulcer dyspepsia. Scand J Gastroduodenal 1994;29:799-806. Background: Nonulcer dyspepsia is common in adults but has been recognized only recently in children. Methods: We compared signs, symptoms, and antroduodenal motility findings in 34 children and 35 adults with severe nonulcer dyspepsia. Results: Symptoms and signs were similar in the two groups. Ten children (29%) and one adult (3%) required tube feedings (p equals; 0.01). Abdominal surgery had been performed on 6 of 34 (18%) children and 18 of 35 adults (51%) (p < 0.01), without relief of symptoms. Esophageal manometry was abnormal in 5 of 23 (22%) children and 6 of 31 (19%) adults. Antroduodenal manometry was suggestive of neuropathy in 25 children and 26 adults and of myopathy in 3 children and 2 adults. Absence of phase 3 of the migrating motor complex was found in 4 children and 17 adults (p equals; 0.01). Antroduodenal manometry was normal in six children and seven adults. Conclusion: Signs, symptoms, and discrete manometric abnormalities of childhood nonulcer dyspepsia resembled those of adult nonulcer dyspepsia. Manometric findings in nonulcer dyspepsia resembled those reported in chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, suggesting that these conditions are on a continuum of enteric neuromuscular diseases.

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