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Patients with gastroparesis frequently present challenging clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic problems. Data from 146 gastroparesis patients seen over six years were analyzed. Patients were evaluated at the time of initial diagnosis and at the most recent follow-up in terms of gastric emptying and gastrointestinal symptomatology. The psychological status and physical and sexual abuse history in female idiopathic gastroparesis patients were ascertained and an association between those factors and gastrointestinal symptomatology was sought. Eighty-two percent of patients were females (mean age: 45 years old). The mean age for onset of gastroparesis was 33.7 years. The etiologies in 146 patients are: 36% idiopathic, 29% diabetic, 13% postgastric surgery, 7.5% Parkinson's disease, 4.8% collagen vascular disorders, 4.1% intestinal pseudoobstruction, and 6% miscellaneous causes. Subgroups were identified within the idiopathic group: 12 patients (23%) had a presentation consistent with a viral etiology, 48% had very prominent abdominal pain. Other subgroups were gastroesophageal reflux disease and nonulcer dyspepsia (19%), depression (23%), and onset of symptoms immediately after cholecystectomy (8%). Sixty-two percent of women with idiopathic gastroparesis reported a history of physical or sexual abuse, and physical abuse was significantly associated with abdominal pain, somatization, depression, and lifetime surgeries. At the end of the follow-up period, 74% required continuous prokinetic therapy, 22% were able to stop prokinetics, 5% had undergone gastrectomy, 6.2% went onto gastric electrical stimulation (pacing), and 7% had died. At some point 21% had required nutrition support with a feeding jejunostomy tube or periods of parenteral nutrition. A good response to pharmacological agents can be expected in the viral and dyspeptic subgroups of idiopathics, Parkinson's disease, and the majority of diabetics, whereas a poorer outcome to prokinetics can be expected in postgastrectomy patients, those with connective tissue disease, a subgroup of diabetics, and the subset of idiopathic gastroparesis dominated by abdominal pain and history of physical and sexual abuse. Appreciation of the different etiologies and psychological status of the patients may help predict response to prokinetic therapy.
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PMID:Demography, clinical characteristics, psychological and abuse profiles, treatment, and long-term follow-up of patients with gastroparesis. 982 25

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an inflammatory connective tissue disease with an autoimmune background, involving various organs and systems during its course. The most important and characteristic clinical manifestations have been included in the revised diagnostic criteria for the classification of SLE published by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 1987. One of them is oral ulceration which occurs in 50% of SLE patients. Oral ulcers and other gastrointestinal complaints such as dyspepsia, abdominal pain and diarrhea, usually attributed to the side-effects of medications, are among the most frequent symptoms in patients with lupus. We report the case of a 42-year-old female suffering from long-standing lupus with kidney and joint involvement, who developed abdominal pain, diarrhea, edema, and cachexia. Our case illustrates the difficulties encountered when searching for the cause of gastrointestinal symptoms. Attention during diagnosis should be given to rare gastrointestinal manifestations of SLE, such as intestinal pseudo-obstruction (IPO) and protein-losing enteropathy (PLE).
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PMID:[Gastrointestinal manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus. Case report]. 2136 42