[32] In addition, we now have experience with gastroparesis in postvagotomy and presumed vagal nerve injury settings, including post-Nissen, vagotomy, and pyloroplasty, Billroth I and II ...

High blood glucose from diabetes can damage this nerve. In fact, may people with gastroparesis also have diabetes. Surgery to the abdomen or small intestines can also cause injury to the vagus nerve.

It’s most frequently recognized disease-associated cause is diabetes. Gastroparesis occurs because the nerves that move food through the digestive tract are damaged, so muscles don’t work ...

While it’s not yet fully understood why these conditions often coexist, it’s pretty clear the gut-brain connection is once ...