Table 2.
Fasting and postprandial motility indices in healthy volunteers and in esophagectomized patients with the stomach as a substitute.
|
Operated (n = 21) |
Significance Symptomatic vs Asymptomatic | Healthy controls (n = 18) | Significance Operated vs control | ||
| Symptomatic | Symptom free | ||||
| Preprandial | 1.39±0.51 | 2.38±0.82 | P<0.01 | 3.03±0.79 | P<0.001 |
| Postprandial | 1.28±0.81 | 2.44±1.05 | P<0.006 | 7.39±1.90 | P<0.001 |
| Significance | NS | NS | P<0.001 | ||