Connecting the Dots Between Gastrointestinal Motility and Symptoms Using Wireless Motility Capsule Testing

Regional gastrointestinal contractility parameters using the wireless motility capsule: inter‐observer reproducibility and influence of age, gender and study country

“…When aberrancies occur in any of these, it may result in disruption of the coordination of propulsive peristalsis, potentially leading to dysmotility and ultimately symptoms . However, dysmotility has been used to describe a plethora of abnormalities, which are not purely limited to alterations in transit but may also result in changes in GI sensorimotor activity …”

Gastrointestinal motility in people with type 1 diabetes and peripheral neuropathy. Reply to Marathe CS, Rayner CK, Jones KL, et al [letter]

“…However, in contrast to gastric scintigraphy, the WMC allows measurement of multi-segmental transit times in a single test, which is time and resource intensive when using whole gut scintigraphy [7]. Furthermore, the WMC also delineates pressure and contractility variables that may be salient to gastrointestinal symptoms in diabetes, although further work is needed in this regard [8,9]. Despite it being well established that severe acute and chronic hyperglycaemia can retard gastric emptying, evidence remains limited that such delayed gastric emptying is an independent risk factor for impairment of glycaemic control [10].…”