Impact of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Gastrointestinal Motility

Table 3

Studies assessing bowel motility.

	Author, year of publication, country	Type of study	Patients (N)	Method of assessment	Study main finding
1	Trung, V. N. et al., 2013 [32], Japan	Prospective study	12	Intestinal motility during OGTT was assessed using cine MRI before and 3 months postoperatively	LSG leads to accelerated intestinal motility and reduced intestinal transit time
2	Melissas, J. et al., 2013 [21], Greece	Prospective study	21	g-Camera before and 4 months postoperatively	LSG accelerates the small bowel transit of semisolids. In addition, it delays the initiation of cecal filling and T ICVt.
3	Shah, S. et al., 2010 [27], India	Prospective controlled study	67; Controls: 24; Morbidly obese patients with T2DM not undergone SG: 20; Morbidly obese patients with T2DM after SG: 23	Scintigraphic imaging	Decreased small bowel transit time after SG