Abbott Vital® as an Alternative Meal to the Gold-standard Egg-white Sandwich for Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy (GES)

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Healthy

Treatments

Radiation: Abbott Vital®

Radiation: Egg-white sandwich

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04812301

USM/JEPeM/20120684

Details and patient eligibility

About

This crossover study is designed to compare the rates of gastric emptying between two diagnostic radioactive meals using the gold-standard egg-white sandwich meal and Abbott Vital®. Healthy participants will be recruited and randomly assigned into either groups of Abbott Vital® and gold-standard egg-white sandwich group. The measurements will be performed over a 4-hour period using a gamma camera, and estimated gastric emptying rates will be calculated using established algorithms.

Full description

The gold-standard egg-white sandwich is quite difficult and complicated for staffs to prepare because the food needs to be cooked first and it will take time to prepare. Besides, the egg-white sandwich is not suitable for those with allergies to egg and bread and also to vegetarian patients. This gold-standard meal is also not a common meal for Asian people so some of the people may not tolerate with the meal. The aim of this study is to determine whether Abbott Vital® is as reliable as the gold-standard egg-white sandwich by comparing the gastric meal retention of both meals.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Normal body mass index (BMI)
Able to give consent
18 years old above

Exclusion criteria

Vegetarian
Allergy or cannot tolerate with milk, egg, and bread
Participants with past and current history of chronic medical illness
Currently on medication that can affect gastrointestinal function are also excluded