Delayed Gastric Emptying after Living Donor Hepatectomy for Liver Transplantation

Figure 4

Gastric emptying study for patient IS following laparoscopic left hepatectomy. (a) Gastric emptying was observed for 60 minutes with intermittent imaging. The region of interest is indicated at right by a line drawn around the activity within the stomach in the anterior view. (b) The emptying curves over 60 minutes (—solid; —dotted) are shown. The half-emptying time ( 1/2) was calculated using the geometric mean. Gastric emptying time was markedly delayed, with no definitive evidence of radiotracer passing into the duodenum during the 60-minute period.

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