In a 58-year-old man on weekly semaglutide, substantial residual gastric contents remained despite fasting and withholding one dose, and the endoscopy was cancelled.
In plain wordsOne man on semaglutide still had food in his stomach after fasting and skipping a dose, so his endoscopy was cancelled.
- Peptide
- Semaglutide
- Outcome
- Not applicableResidual gastric contents after withholding one weekly dose
- Study
n = 1
- Outcome group
- Gastrointestinal adverse events · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Source sentences
Despite these measures, substantial residual gastric contents led to procedure cancelation.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
A 58-year-old man scheduled for an elective upper endoscopy followed standard preprocedural fasting guidelines and withheld one weekly dose of semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA).