Breath Test Models for Gastric Emptying.

Alan Zinsmeister, PhD
* Candidate for Director Position in the Biostatistical Design and Analysis Center
College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Tuesday, April 15
12:00noon - 1:00pm
MoosT 2-580
Minneapolis Campus

Abstract:
The most widely accepted accurate assessment of gastric emptying is based on scintigraphic scanning methods using a gamma camera to measure radiolabeled meal contents in the stomach. Due to the limitations of using this method in some settings (e.g.children and pregnant women, large community based epidemiologic studies), stable isotope breath sample methods have been introduced to measure gastric emptying. This talk will describe several approaches to developing reliable breath sample based estimates of scintigraphically measured gastric emptying.

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