Diabetic gastroparesis: Therapeutic options

Diabetes Therapy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-43

  Alam, Uazman ^a   Asghar, Omar ^a   Malik, Rayaz Ahmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diabetic gastroparesis; gastric electrical stimulation; ghrelin; mechanical therapy; prokinetic therapy

Indexed keywords

ALEMCINAL; AZITHROMYCIN; BETHANECHOL; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CISAPRIDE; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOMPERIDONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MITEMCINAL; PLACEBO; PROKINETIC AGENT; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; TEGASEROD; TZP 101; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ACUPUNCTURE; ANXIETY; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAPHORESIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPIGASTRIC FULLNESS; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; GALACTORRHEA; GASTROSTOMY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; JEJUNOSTOMY; LIBIDO DISORDER; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; REVIEW; SATIETY; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH PARESIS; SWEATING; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URTICARIA; VOMITING;

EID: 85027922586     PISSN: 18696953     EISSN: 18696961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13300-010-0010-8     Document Type: Review

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