Table 3.

The response to a test meal of mechanical activity in the stomach of healthy volunteers and of esophagectomized patients with a transposed stomach, expressed as the number of contractions per minute. The electromechanical fractions express the percentage of the dominant frequency that develops mechanical contractions.

	Operated patients (n = 21)						Healthy controls (n = 18)
	Preprandial			Postprandial			Preprandial	Postprandial
	Total	Symptomatic	Asymptomatic	Total	Symptomatic	Asymptomatic
Contractions	2.16±1.66	2.24±2.01	2.03±0.93	2.19±1.85	2.14±2.28	2.26±0.97	2.2±0.71	2.36±0.731
Electromechanical fraction	68.7±19.4	67.5±22.5	70.5±15.8	62.5±31.0	54.2±32.3	76.0±24.8	78.2±17.6	75.8±18.7

¹P<0.02.