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PSYCHOSOMATICS
Volume 47, Issue 5, Pages 440-442Publisher
AMER PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.47.5.440
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Gastroparesis is a condition of abnormal gastric motility characterized by delayed gastric emptying without evidence of mechanical outlet obstruction. The authors describe complete remission of recurrent postprandial discomfort, nausea, and vomiting within 1 week of starting mirtazapine in a gastroparetic patient who had failed to respond, in 7 months, to conventional prokinetics ( erythromycin, metoclopramide, domperidone, perphenazine, itopride, bethanechol, and/or tegaserod) and pyloric injection of botulinum toxin. This is the first report to show that mirtazapine may be an effective alternative when gastroparesis is refractory to conventional measures.
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