Gastric emptying and anthroduodenal motility study of patients with functional ulcer like dyspepsia: correlation with histopathological findings and helicobacter pylori

ABSTRACT

13 patients complaining of functional ulcer like dyspepsia and 8 volunteers healthy persons with comparable age and sex were studied for gastric emptying tests by B-mode sonography and antroduodenal study by colored duplex. Gastro duodenoscopy was done for each patient, biopsies were taken from antrum and corpus. The results showed that there is a correlation between delayed gastric emptying and severity of symptoms. Histopathological examination of biopsies sowed chronic gastritis in all cases and H. pylori infection in 92.3%. So, it is concluded that H. pylori may play a role in the pathogenesis of functional ulcer like dyspepsia