[Gastrointestinal motility and vegetative balance: correlations in peptic ulcer].

To evaluate changes in gastrointestinal motility and their correlations with vegetative dysfunction in duodenal ulcer, computed electrogastroenterography was made in 22 healthy subjects, 23 patients with uncomplicated duodenal ulcer and 45 patients with duodenal ulcer complicated by fat hepatosis, chronic cholecystitis and/or biliary dyskinesia, chronic pancreatitis, reflux esophagitis. The study was also made of the vegetative tonicity, vegetative reactivity, circadian urine excretion of vanilylmandelic acid. It was discovered that uncomplicated duodenal ulcer is characterized by intensive gastrointestinal motility correlating with parasympathicotonia and vegetative hyperreactivity. In patients with complicated duodenal ulcer gastric and intestinal motor activity is weaker than in patients with uncomplicated ulcer. They have parasympathicotonia and low vegetative reactivity but gastrointestinal motility does not depend much on functional state of the autonomic nervous system.