Fenfluramine delays gastric emptying of solid food.

Article date: June 1985

By: M Horowitz, PJ Collins, V Tuckwell, J Vernon‐Roberts, DJ Shearman, in Volume 19, Issue 6, pages 849-851

The effect of a single dose of (+/‐)‐fenfluramine hydrochloride (40 mg) on gastric emptying of a mixed solid and liquid meal was assessed with a dual isotope scintigraphic technique in eight obese patients. Fenfluramine significantly delayed gastric emptying of solid food (approximately a 15% reduction in the solid linear emptying rate), but had no effect on gastric emptying of liquid.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1985.tb02728.x

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