Paracetamol Absorption Technique as a Method for Measuring Gastric Tube Outlet

Region Skane

Status: Completed

Conditions: Esophageal and/or Cardia Cancer; Gastric Pull-up Reconstruction; Esophagectomy

Treatments: Other: Measuring emptying rate from the gastric tube

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02158286

TS2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

Retention of the gastric tube after esophagectomy is a clinically important problem, and there is a need of a simple method to evaluate emptying rate from the gastric tube after esophagectomy. Scintigraphy is the golden standard of measuring emptying rate from the gastric tube. In non-operated patients, paracetamol clearance technique have been widely used for measuring gastric emptying rate. There is no validation however if paracetamol clearance technique can be used for measuring emptying rate of the gastric tube. The investigators aim of this pilot- study is to validate paracetamol clearance technique to scintigraphy for measuring emptying rate from the gastric tube and to evaluate if there is a correlation between symptoms of retention and quality of life with the emptying rate.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients where it had past at least two years since they had underwent an Ivor Lewis esophagectomy with gastric pull-up reconstruction.
• no signs of recurrence
• >18 years of age

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

13 participants in 1 patient group

Esophagectomy, Emptying from gastric tube

Description:

Validate paracetamol clearance technique to scintigraphy for measuring emptying rate from the gastric tube.

Treatment:

Other: Measuring emptying rate from the gastric tube