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The administration of a radioactive tracer through the liver cell and the elimination of bile following an induced vesicular contraction permits duodenogastric reflux to be objectively diagnosed without intubation. This quantitative study of the reflux using 99mTC diethyl-IDA is based on 214 patients and demonstrates: 1) a frequent association with the gastric ulcer, 2) a considerable frequency in gastric resection surgery with duodenogastric anastomosis, 3) a constant occurrence in gastric resection surgery using jejunogastric anastomosis. These findings point to the involvement of biliopancreatic reflux in the genesis of gastric ulcer as well as gastritis and carcinoma of the gastric stump.
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PMID:Quantitative analysis of diethyl-IDA reflux. Comparison of controls and dyspeptic, gastric ulcerated, and gastrectomized patients. 658 15

99mTc-diethyl-IDA is completely excreted into the bile. When cholecystokinin is given after priming of the biliary tract with this tracer, gallbladder contraction leads to expulsion of bile into the duodenum. At the same time cholecystokinin causes contraction of the pylorus, which should normally prevent substantial reflux of tracer into the stomach. We have applied these physiological characteristics in a method to quantify biliary gastric reflux. Fourteen controls had a median reflux of 4.3% of the intravenous dose (93% of controls had values less than 9%). In 18 patients with Billroth II gastrectomies the median reflux was 46% (p less than 0.001). Patients with chronic gastritis (no. = 18) had also increased reflux (median 18.1%, p less than 0.001). The same was found in gastric ulcer (no. = 18, median 11.8%, p less than 0.003). In duodenal ulcer (no. = 7) increased reflux existed in only two patients with pyloric deformation. Patients with hiatal hernia did not show increased reflux (no. = 10, median 2.2%). Bilirubin measurements tended to underestimate reflux in pathological cases, whereas bile acid measurements and reflux percentages of tracer showed a close relationship (r = 0.87, p less than 0.001).
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PMID:A simple method for the quantification of biliary reflux. 720 86