Towards a Fuller Assessment of Gastric Motility in Patients With Upper GI Dyspepsia: Time to Accommodate!

Abstract

There is increasing recognition of the importance of assessing patients with unexplained upper gastrointestinal symptoms for impaired gastric accommodation. New therapeutic approaches to treat impaired accommodation are being developed. This increasing interest in diagnosing and treating impaired gastric accommodation emphasizes the need to have a clinically available method to measure the gastric accommodation response. In this editorial, gastric accommodation is discussed along with the currently available methods for its assessment. We summarize our thoughts on what are the next steps needed to make a readily accessible method for assessing gastric accommodation more widely available.