Can an autopsy show if someone have gastroparesis?


Answers:    I doubt it. I have had Gastroparesis for 9 years and it just get worse year after year. It is the muscles in your stomach stop working to push the food out. Mine started at 6-8 hours nine years ago but now it takes at lowest possible a week. It is most common in diabetics but I am not diabetic. It also usually causes nausea & vomiting but I don't own either of those either. The Docs call mine idiopathic because I don't own the usual symptoms except the fullness where the muscles have stopped working. My bowels are completely shut down as well, I filch 2 different laxatives a day. They find out if you have it by having you devour eggs with a radioactive material in them, after watch how fast by x-ray your stomach empties. Since your stomach can't clear after death I doubt an autopsy can show if you had gastroparesis or not. It is a horrible way to live. I can count on one mitt the foods I can eat, most people don't get as discouraging as mine has gotten. Gastroparesis can be checked while you are alive, why wait for an autopsy. Source(s): retired paramedic with gastroparesis
Gastroparesis is diagnosed clinically surrounded by a living patient, usually by a gastroenterologist. Literally, gastroparesis means weakness of the stomach, and gastroparesis usually is manifest as slowed gastric emptying. At an autopsy, it would be very unusual to find anything anatomically abnormal surrounded by the stomach of a person who had gastroparesis during life.


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