To conduct a pilot study to evaluate the effects of new GES programming settings on abdominal pain in patients with gastroparesis and existing GES devices, whose abdominal pain has so far been refractory to drugs and/or devices.
Eligible patients will undergo detailed pain assessments as well as non-invasive physiologic assessment. Patients existing GES devices will be reprogrammed to new setting for 4 week and their GI symptoms including pain will be evaluated by a daily diary. At the end of 4 weeks detailed pain assessments and noninvasive physiologic assessments will be repeated.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
4
To measure validated and subjective pain scores among patients with an existing GES device, and who have a trial of new settings directed at abdominal pain and compare their pain scores to each patient baseline symptoms, done with their previous GES settings.
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Abdominal Pain
Abdominal Pain by Brief Pain Inventory. The values are 0-10, with 10 being worse outcome.
Time frame: 4 weeks
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