Human electrogastrograms
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Digestive Diseases and Sciences
- Vol. 31 (1), 33-39
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01347907
Abstract
A method to record the gastric basic electrical rhythm (BER) using skin electrodes is described. Correlation is made with mucosal suction electrodes in 20 volunteers. Successful simultaneous recording from surface electrodes and mucosal electrodes is made in 16/20 subjects (80%). An increase in amplitude of the recorded gastric BER with gastric contractions is demonstrated and discussed. Five patients with gastric motility disturbances and chronic nausea are also investigated. Four of these patients had diabetic gastroparesis. Each had preservation of the gastric BER. The rate was usually normal at three per minute, but during acute nausea episodes which occurred in three of the four, an abnormally increased rate of the BER (tachygastria) was seen. This finding was also seen in a subject with atrophic gastritis and delay of gastric emptying. The surface electrogastrogram may prove to be a useful tool for the investigation of patients with suspected gastric arrhythmias.This publication has 46 references indexed in Scilit:
- Electrical arrhythmias in the human stomach.Gut, 1981
- What is measured in electrogastrography?Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 1980
- Human gastric pacesetter potentialThe American Journal of Surgery, 1977
- Gastrointestinal Myoelectrical Activity during the Postoperative Period in ManDigestion, 1976
- Pacesetter potential of the human gastroduodenal junctionGut, 1971
- Electrical activity of the gastric antrum in manBritish Journal of Surgery, 1970
- A method of recording the gastric electrical activity in manDigestive Diseases and Sciences, 1970
- Clinical electrogastrography and its relationship to gastric surgeryThe American Journal of Surgery, 1968
- An Improved Apparatus for Measuring the ElectrogastrogramScience, 1951
- THE ELECTROGASTROGRAM AND WHAT IT SHOWSJAMA, 1922