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Irritable bowel syndrome [PDF]
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disease with a high population prevalence. The disorder can be debilitating in some patients, whereas others may have mild or moderate symptoms. The most important single risk factors are female sex, younger age and preceding gastrointestinal infections.
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Irritable bowel syndrome [PDF]
Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional gastrointestinal disorder with symptoms including abdominal pain associated with a change in stool form or frequency. The condition affects between 5% and 10% of otherwise healthy individuals at any one point in time and, in most people, runs a relapsing and remitting course.
Ford, Alexander C. +3 more
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome [PDF]
Studies of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and other biopsychosocial disorders show a great variety of approaches to important clinical challenges. The papers in this special issue shed light on new and interesting aspects of IBS.
Per G. Farup +2 more
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome [PDF]
AbstractConceptually, the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been considered a brain‐gut functional disorder, but this paradigm is under serious challenge. There is increasing evidence that organic disease of the gastrointestinal tract can be identified in subsets of patients who fulfil the Rome criteria for IBS.
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Irritable bowel syndrome: Is it "irritable brain" or "irritable bowel"? [PDF]
ABSTRACTIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been recognized as one of the most common and best studied disorders among the group of functional gastrointestinal disorders. It is a functional bowel disorder in which abdominal pain or discomfort is associated with defecation or a change in bowel habit.
Padhy, Susanta Kumar +3 more
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Aim. To study the prevalence of the small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome in patients with irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea who have had COVID-19 infection.Materials and methods. 60 patients with irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea were
A. V. Nalyotov, N. P. Guz
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Patients with different irritable bowel symptoms and normal subjects were compared to determine whether subtypes of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be distinguished on the basis of colonic motility or psychological test scores. A provocative test involving stepwise distension of the rectosigmoid area revealed two types of colonic motility.
M A, Eastwood, H, Nyhlin
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CONTEXT: Recent studies support the hypothesis that postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome and some irritable bowel syndrome patients display persistent signs of minor mucosal inflammation.
Mauro Bafutto +5 more
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome [PDF]
The irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic and sometimes disabling functional bowel disorder.1,2 Traditionally, this functional diagnostic label has been applied when no obvious structural or biochemical abnormalities are found, but emerging evidence suggests that distinct pathophysiological disturbances may account for the symptoms and that IBS ...
Ford, Alexander C. +2 more
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Patients with IBS need an integrated, individualized approach to treatment, with a foundation based on a successful patient-physician relationship. The emotional and psychologic needs of the patients need to be considered in a successful management plan.
S M, Turner +3 more
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