Delayed gastric emptying
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Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Delayed gastric emptying
- Ampullary cancer
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Autonomic neuropathy
- Bezoars
- Bouveret Syndrome
- Brainstem tumor
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Congenital obstruction
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Drugs
- Duodenal cancer
- Gastric cancer
- Gastric polyps
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Hypokalemia
- Hypomagnesemia
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Idiopathic
- Ingestion of caustics
- Metastases
- Myotonic dystrophy
- Pancreatic cancer
- Pancreatic pseudocyst
- Polymyositis
- Pregnancy
- Psychogenic vomiting
- Pyloric channel ulcer
- Pyloric stenosis
- Scleroderma
- Ulcers in first portion of duodenum
- Vagotomy
- Viral infection [1] [1]
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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
