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Finney pyloroplasty. This also connects your stomach directly to your duodenum
but with the incision to your pylorus. This procedure is rarely done today.
Metoclopramide has been approved by the FDA specifically to treat nausea and
vomiting in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease or diabetic
gastroparesis by increasing gastric motility.
gastric motility is is the process by which food travels through the digestive tract
via a series of muscular contractions called peristalsis.