The term gastroparesis is used to indicate a partial paralysis of the musculature of the stomach .
Because of this particular pathological condition, ingested food remains long in the stomach and the digestive process is noticeably slowed down.
Moreover, an alternative name that doctors use to refer to gastroparesis is delayed gastric emptying .
Currently, there is no specific cure that resolves gastroparesis; there is only a series of symptomatic therapeutic remedies, namely aimed at reducing symptoms and improving the quality of life of patients.
Two of these symptomatic remedies, carried out above all in the case of severe gastroparesis, are the surgical interventions of gastroenterostomy and gastrodigiunostomy .
Gastroenterostomy consists in directly connecting the stomach to a tract of the small intestine, thus avoiding the passage of food for the pyloric valve and its entry into the duodenum - the latter process, which during the gastroparesis is slow and difficult.
The gastrodigiunostomy, instead, consists in joining the stomach specifically to the jejunum, that is the second part of the small intestine (immediately after the duodenum).
