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TABLE II GASTRIC TRANSIT TIMES Percentage of Patients with Gastric Transit Times of Four Hours
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| Abstract | As can be seen from Table II, emptying of the stomach in ulcerative colitis may be delayed. Although some patients were investigated in the active phase of their illness by no means all were toxic and in the main they were longstanding cases. In addition small intestine transit time is slow, but since in only five of eight of this group was it possible to complete the investigation due to the prolonged delay in the stomach of three, further studies of small intestinal transit are needed for con-firmation. Should this distinction between the two dis-orders be substantiated by further study, the alimentary transit time might provide a clinical means of differ-entiating between Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. SUMMARY A simple, safe, inexpensive method of determining intestinal transit time (both as a whole and in compo-nents) is described. Some preliminary results of an un-expected nature are reported. We would like to thank Dr. B. J. Perry for his help in developing this method and staff in the Physics Depart-ment, St. George's Hospital, for making the pills. REFERENCES Bariny, F., and Jacobson, B. (1964). Endoradiosonde study of pro-pulsion and pressure activity induced by test meals, prostig-mine, and diphenoxylate in the small intestine. Gut, 5, 90-95. Code, C. F., Hightower, N. C., and Mortlock, C. G. (1952). Motility of the alimentary canal in man. Amer. J. Med., 13, 328-351. Connell, A. M., and Rowlands, E. N. (1960). Wireless telemetering from the digestive tract. Gut, 1, 266-272.-- (1961). The motility of the small intestine. Postgrad. med. J., |
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