[Dyspeptic syndrome in heart diseases]

Abstract

Many investigations have ascertained the relation between dyspepsia and diseases or disorders of gastrointestinal tract; on the contrary, the topics concerning the dyspeptic syndrome during acute cardiac disorders are very few. For this reason, Authors studied the upper tract of digestive apparatus in some patients affected with congestive heart failure and ischemic heart disease. Data have showed alterations of motility in esophagus, stomach and duodenum in every patient and lesions of gastric mucous membrane in more than half of them.