United European Gastroenterology States is 9.6 cases per 100 000 person-years for men and 37.8 cases per (UEG) and European Society for Neurogastroenterology and Motility (ESNM) consensus on gastroparesis. [...] She was a speaker for a webinar on chronic pain in inflammatory bowel disease for gastrointestinal endoscopy to exclude an obstruction.1 Evidence of AbbVie (2021) and also participated on an advisory delayed gastric emptying is required to establish the diagnosis.1 The scin- board for Allergan (2020), outside of this work. [...] Affiliations: Division of Gastroenterology and 4 Treatments include dietary modifications and prokinetic Hepatology (Miles, Woo, Nasser), Department of agents Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Patients should follow a low-fat, low-fibre diet and eat small, frequent Division of Digestive Care and Endoscopy (Miles), meals to manage symptoms.2 Prokinetic agents, such as first-line Depa. [...] delay gastric emptying should be avoided.3 Therapies can be trialled Content licence: This is an Open Access article before endoscopy if the suspicion of gastroparesis is high; they should be distributed in accordance with the terms of the held before scintigraphy. [...] Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence, which permits use, distribution and repro- 5 R efer patients with persistent symptoms to gastroenterology duction in any medium, provided that the original Second-line pharmacological therapies include antiemetics (e.g., publication is properly cited, the use is noncommer- cial (i.e., research or educational use) and no modifi- 5-hydroxytrypt.
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