Gastric emptying in adults treated for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis

The gastric emptying rate was scintigraphically determined in 6 women and 26 men who had undergone medical or surgical treatment for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis a median of 29 years previously. Dyspeptic complaints were reported by four of the seven medically treated and nine of the 25 surgically treated group. No intergroup difference was demonstrated in the gastric emptying rate of liquid or solid food, and neither group differed significantly from the normal values. The gastric emptying rate, measured as in this study, thus was uninfluenced by treatment.