Gastric Myoelectric Activity With Water Load Satiety Test as a Predictor of Individual Successful Response to Treatment by Various Bariatric Procedures.

Electrogastrography is a non-invasive method of recording GMA that is used to diagnose gastric dysrythmias in patients with intractable chronic nausea and vomiting, gastroparesis and gastroesophageal reflux.

Bariatric Techniques: 3 categories 1)restrictive,2) mal absorptive 3)mixed Bariatric endoscopy techniques have emerged as safe and effective treatment that include restrictive endoscopic techniques: Intragastric balloons or endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty(ESG),primary surgery obesity endoluminal (POSE) or Endo-sleeve (GESP or POSE 2.0) procedures; malabsorptive techniques :endoluminal bypass (endobarrier),duodenal mucosa resurfacing; extraction methods (Aspire); electrical stimulation : gastric pacemaker, vagal blockage and other procedures.

Weight loss and long-term maintenance may be conditioned by changes in GMA, as well as by anatomical modifications induced by the bariatric procedure.

Since anatomical modifications of the stomach by the BE procedures are related to weight loss, The purpose is to determine whether different procedures to reduce gastric capacity will result in substantial changes in GMA and in the water load volume ingested. No studies that have studied obese population before and after such BE procedures are available.

Therefore, whether obese patients have the GMA that is similar to those with functional dyspepsia and normal weight . Also, the usefulness of electrogastrography as a new tool to customize choice of Bariatric therapies by determining success or failure based on GMA and WLST results has not been studied. GMA measures the normal or depleted gastric ICCs and the WLST measures gastric capacity, objective measures that may be important to predict success of Bariatric procedures and thus to help with patient selection to maximize efficacy and minimize side effects.