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Dyspepsia

Medical Clinics of North America, 2014
Dyspepsia is a complex disorder with several distinct pathophysiologic mechanisms that are still poorly understood. Patients who experience dyspepsia have a high burden of disease, with significant personal and economic costs. Although serious pathology presenting as dyspepsia is rare, clinicians need to be aware of alarm features that should trigger ...
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Dyspepsia

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 2012
A variety of organic diseases can cause dyspepsia, but most patients with epigastric pain have functional dyspepsia. As dyspepsia is common and usually has a benign cause, it is not possible to fully investigate everyone with epigastric pain. Current recommendations suggest that young patients without alarm symptoms can be treated empirically with ...
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Uninvestigated dyspepsia

Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology, 2002
Dyspepsia, which is defined as pain or discomfort centered in the upper abdomen, is encountered frequently in primary care and subspecialty practice. Dyspepsia is a symptom complex caused by a heterogeneous group of disorders and diseases. A large fraction of patients with dyspepsia suffer from functional dyspepsia, in which no evidence of organic ...
Uri, Ladabaum, William D., Chey
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Controversies in dyspepsia

European Journal of Surgery, 2001
Even in the absence of visible lesions like an ulcer, cancer or oesophagitis, patients with functional dyspepsia may complain of severe dyspeptic symptoms and have a poor quality of life. Characteristically, these patients also often have a low estimate of their own health and have complaints from several organ systems.
A, Berstad   +5 more
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Treatment of dyspepsia

Clinical Therapeutics, 1998
Dyspepsia is a condition that is commonly seen by family physicians and gastroenterologists in clinical practice. However, there is little consensus on how dyspepsia should be treated. Some of the issues that require consideration are: Who seeks medical help? What types of physicians do patients choose to see?
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Nonulcer dyspepsia

Current Gastroenterology Reports, 2002
Nonulcer dyspepsia is a common condition in clinical practice. It is a heterogeneous disorder, and no single therapeutic agent is effective in all patients. The treatment of nonulcer dyspepsia is still dissatisfactory. Eradication of Helicobacter pylori organisms has a limited role and little effect.
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Pathogenesis of Dyspepsia

Digestive Diseases, 2008
Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a highly prevalent and heterogeneous disorder. Although recent studies have investigated various pathophysiological mechanisms, the pathogenesis of FD remains obscure. Pathophysiological mechanisms currently proposed to be involved in FD symptom generation include delayed gastric emptying, impaired gastric accommodation to ...
Kostas, Mimidis, Jan, Tack
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The Management of Dyspepsia

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1988
As dyspepsia is such a common complaint and the symptoms may be short-lived with no sequelae, it is important to select those patients who can be treated symptomatically from those who need early investigation. This must be done by a careful history and examination looking for evidence of organic desease or depressive illness and for predictors of ...
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Dyspepsia and Nonulcer Dyspepsia

2001
Dyspepsia is defined as pain or discomfort centered in the upper abdomen (1). Pain in the central portion of the abdomen is essential for the diagnosis and pain located in other areas is excluded. Discomfort is a subjective negative feeling that may not be interpreted by the patient as pain, and may include a variety of symptoms, including fullness in ...
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Dyspepsia

Medical Journal of Australia, 1992
T D, Bolin, M G, Korman
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