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Gastric electrical stimulation in intractable symptomatic gastroparesisThomas L Abell
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Miss 39216 4505, USA
Digestion 66:204-12. 2002..We have assessed the effect of gastric electrical stimulation on symptoms, medical treatment, body weight and gastric emptying in patients with intractable symptomatic gastroparesis in a non-placebo-controlled study...- Gastric electrical stimulation is safe and effective: a long-term study in patients with drug-refractory gastroparesis in three regional centersCuruchi Anand
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Ark, USA
Digestion 75:83-9. 2007..Drug-refractory gastroparesis has previously been without acceptable alternative therapies. Although gastric electrical stimulation has been used for over a decade, no long-term multicenter data exist... - Looking to the future: electrical stimulation for obesityThomas L Abell
Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA
Am J Med Sci 331:226-32. 2006..Future work on stimulation for obesity offers the opportunity for better understanding of possible mechanisms of action... - Gastrointestinal complications of bariatric surgery: diagnosis and therapyThomas L Abell
Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA
Am J Med Sci 331:214-8. 2006..As new surgical, and even endoscopic, procedures to treat obesity are developed, new gastrointestinal complications will need to be recognized... - Nutrition aspects of gastroparesis and therapies for drug-refractory patientsThomas L Abell
Division of Digestive Disease, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, N 136, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Nutr Clin Pract 21:23-33. 2006..Enteric electrical stimulation for gastroparesis often corrects many of the nutrition abnormalities, along with improving symptoms and quality of life and reducing costs; for some categories of patients, it may improve survival rates... - Electrophysiologic, morphologic, and serologic features of chronic unexplained nausea and vomiting: lessons learned from 121 consecutive patientsThomas L Abell
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA
Surgery 145:476-85. 2009..We investigated consecutive patients with unexplained and refractory chronic nausea and vomiting to define the presence of morphologic, physiologic, and/or serologic abnormalities... - Gastric electrical stimulation for gastroparesis improves nutritional parameters at short, intermediate, and long-term follow-upThomas Abell
Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 27:277-81. 2003..Patients' symptoms were of long duration (7.3 years) and associated with diabetes mellitus (3 patients) or were idiopathic (9 patients) as etiology... - A double-masked, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of temporary endoscopic mucosal gastric electrical stimulation for gastroparesisThomas L Abell
Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Gastrointest Endosc 74:496-503.e3. 2011..Endoscopically placed, temporary gastric electrical stimulation (tGES) may relieve symptoms of gastroparesis (Gp) and predict permanent gastric electrical stimulation (GES) outcomes... - Pilot study on gastric electrical stimulation on surgery-associated gastroparesis: long-term outcomeBenton Oubre
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
South Med J 98:693-7. 2005..This pilot study with long-term outcomes offers evidence for a new therapy for otherwise refractory patients with gastroparesis associated with previous surgery... - Patients with cyclic vomiting pattern and diabetic gastropathy have more migraines, abnormal electrogastrograms, and gastric emptyingChristopher J Christensen
Gastrointestinal Division, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Scand J Gastroenterol 43:1076-81. 2008..The purpose of this work was to study the subset of patients with cyclic vomiting characteristics, described as a cyclic vomiting pattern, in a population of patients with symptoms of diabetic gastroparesis... - Dietary intake and nutritional deficiencies in patients with diabetic or idiopathic gastroparesisHenry P Parkman
Gastroenterology Section, Department of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, USA
Gastroenterology 141:486-98, 498.e1-7. 2011..Gastroparesis can lead to food aversion, poor oral intake, and subsequent malnutrition. We characterized dietary intake and nutritional deficiencies in patients with diabetic and idiopathic gastroparesis... - Laparoscopy shortens length of stay in patients with gastric electrical stimulatorsAmar Al-Juburi
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
JSLS 9:305-10. 2005..Laparoscopic placement of devices may be preferable when technically feasible... - To clot or not to clot: are there predictors of clinically significant thrombus formation in patients with gastroparesis and prolonged IV access?W Bradley Creel
Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Dig Dis Sci 53:1532-6. 2008..These findings, coupled with lower Protein S levels in some CLOT patients, suggests that autoimmune factors may be associated with GP patients who thrombose IV access versus patients who do not... - Electrostimulation for intractable delayed emptying of intrathoracic stomach after esophagectomyJihad R Salameh
Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 85:1417-9. 2008..The use of the denervated intrathoracic stomach as esophageal substitute can rarely lead to severe delayed gastric emptying. We describe the use of electrostimulation for this condition... - Refractory gastroparesis after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: surgical treatment with implantable pacemakerJ R Salameh
Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 11:1669-72. 2007..Gastroparesis is a rare complication of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. We evaluate the role of gastric electrical stimulation in medically refractory gastroparesis... - Novel application of GI electrical stimulation in Roux stasis syndrome (with video)Sumanth R Daram
Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Gastrointest Endosc 74:683-6. 2011..GI electrical stimulation has been previously used successfully in the management of postsurgical gastroparesis... - Consensus recommendations for gastric emptying scintigraphy: a joint report of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society and the Society of Nuclear MedicineThomas L Abell
Gastroenterology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 103:753-63. 2008..Adoption of this standardized protocol will resolve the lack of uniformity of testing, add reliability and credibility to the results, and improve the clinical utility of the GE test... - Video: temporary gastric electrical stimulation for gastroparesis: endoscopic placement of electrodes (ENDOstim)Sumanth R Daram
Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Surg Endosc 25:3444-5. 2011..This study demonstrated an easier and less cumbersome placement of these electrodes endoscopically [1-3]... - Assessing thrombosis risk in patients with idiopathic, diabetic, and postsurgical gastroparesisAmy Lobrano
Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA
Adv Ther 23:750-68. 2006.... - Gastroparesis and the gastric pacemaker: a revolutionary treatment for an old diseaseThomas L Abell
Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
J Miss State Med Assoc 43:369-75. 2002..It offers a new and hopeful therapy for patients with refractory gastroparesis where none have existed before... - Prevalence, sociodemography, and quality of life of older versus younger patients with irritable bowel syndrome: a population-based studyAnil Minocha
Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216 4505, USA
Dig Dis Sci 51:446-53. 2006..While IBS affects QOL at all ages, social functioning was actually better on average among older compared to younger IBS patients... - Prokinetic therapy reduces aspiration pneumonia in tube-fed patients with severe developmental disabilitiesNamita Pareek
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Digestive Diseases, Jackson 39216, USA
Am J Ment Retard 112:467-71. 2007..3 to 6.4. There were no adverse events noted from the therapy. Appropriately monitored prokinetic therapy may prove to be beneficial in preventing aspiration pneumonia in selected patients with developmental disabilities... - Gastric electrical stimulation has an immediate antiemetic effect in patients with gastroparesisBabajide O Familoni
Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Memphis, TN 38152, USA
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 53:1038-46. 2006..Electrical stimulation has been successfully employed to treat diseases involving electro-pathology in the heart, skeletal muscles, and the brain, but not in the GI tract... - Gastric electrical stimulation is associated with improvement in pancreatic exocrine function in humansJean Luo
University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Pancreas 29:e41-4. 2004..3, P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: GES improves exocrine pancreatic release, effects autonomic control, and improves GI symptoms, suggesting a possible role for GES in the treatment of pancreatic insufficiency associated with gastroparesis... - Driving gastric electrical activity with electrical stimulationBabajide O Familoni
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
Ann Biomed Eng 33:356-64. 2005..Computer simulation of GES may be a useful tool to complement and reduce some of the costs associated with empirical studies of gastric electrical stimulation in establishing its possible use in treating drug refractory gastroparesis...
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- Establishing UMMC's Clinical Center in NIDDK's Gastropa*Thomas Abell; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..