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58 - Gutting a Pearl

The Curious Clinicians

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Is Decompensated Heart Failure Related to Delay in Gastric Empty?

There is experimental kind of physiologic evidence in mice that acute decompensated heart failure through maybe a not entirely clear mechanism can cause delayed gastric emptying. And there's actually support for this explanation and it comes from an unexpected source, which is ruen-Y gastric bypass patients. You give them oral furosemide and they absorb it rapidly and they get a quicker naturices. Next, we'll talk about the bowel regimen.

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