Does grading the severity of gastroparesis based on scintigraphic gastric emptying predict the treatment outcome of patients with gastroparesis?
(1) GET in patients whose GP symptoms were refractory to standard medical therapy and required GES was significantly slower than in GP patients whose symptoms responded to medical therapy. (2) Stratifying GET into mild, moderate, and severe degrees of gastric retention does not predict whether a medical or surgical approach will be better to control the symptoms of diabetic GP but does correlate with treatment for the idiopathic GP subgroup.
For many cancer procedures, patients undergoing surgery at NCI-designated cancer centers had lower surgical mortality rates than those treated at comparably high-volume hospitals, but similar long-term survival rates.