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Improved image quality during abdominal ultrasonography by clebopride + simethicone
1Unidad de Ecografías, Hospital Cruz Roja, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
The use of clebopride + simethicone (Flatoril) was assessed as a possible solution to the problem of ultrasound imaging of the pancreas area. A statistically significant improvement was found in head and body imaging of the pancreas (76%). This is due to simethicone's antiflatulence effect and the movement of gas towards the intestine and colon as a result of clebopride's gastrointestinal emptying effect.