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GASTRIC EMPTYING IN INFANTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
Author(s) -
CAVELL B.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1981.tb05733.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gastric emptying , heart disease , pediatrics , gastroenterology , stomach
. Cavell, B. (Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden). Gastric emptying in infants with congenital heart disease. Acta Paediatr Scand, 70: 517,.–Gastric emptying of infant formula using a marker dilution technique was studied in 8 infants with congenital heart disease aged 1 week to 5 months. Six infants were in heart failure and 4 failed to grow. Gastric emptying followed a linear pattern in 5 and a biphasic pattern with an initial slow phase in 2 infants. The amounts of meal emptied after 1 and 2 hours, 14.7 and 31.0 ml per 0.1 m 2 of body surface area, respectively, were significantly smaller than the corresponding amounts found in a group of healthy infants.