Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The management of diabetic gastroparesis resistant to medical therapy is very difficult – the most severely affected patients often spend many days as hospital inpatients with intractable nausea and vomiting and consequent dehydration, leading to a marked reduction in quality of life. Recently, gastric pacing (also known as gastric electrical stimulation (GES)) has been tried in these patients as a means of correcting the physiological deficit. It has shown ...

Introduction: Patients who are severely affected with diabetic gastroparesis tend to spend many days as hospital inpatients with intractable nausea and vomiting and consequent dehydration. In patients who do not respond to promotility agents, gastric electrical stimulation (GES) is an option. This is a relatively new therapeutic modality which has shown promise in international trials. It has seen use in a very limited number of patients in Ireland. Here we outline our experie...