EFFECT OF CIRCUMCOSTAL GASTROPEXY ON GASTRIC MYOELECTRIC AND MOTOR-ACTIVITY IN DOGS

Gastric electrical and contractile activities were assessed in healthy adult dogs on the eighth day after circumcostal gastropexy surgery, u sing serosal electrodes and strain gauge force transducers. Recordings were analysed to determine gastric slow wave frequency, presence of g astric slow wave dysrhythmias, gastric slow wave propagation velocity, coupling of gastric contractions to slow waves, a gastric motility in dex based on relative contractile amplitudes, and onset of gastric con tractions after a standardised meal. Overall, gastric electrical and c ontractile activities were relatively unaffected by circumcostal gastr opexy.