Functional GI disorders: what's in a name?

Functional Disoders of Gastreointestinal System

Based on Rome III criteria, functional disorders of GI are listed below:   Infant regurgitation: -regurgitation two or more times per day for 3 or more weeks -no retching, hematemesis, aspiration, apnea, FTT, abnormal posturing Infant rumination syndrome: -repetitive contraction of abdominal muscle -regurgitation of gastric content in to the mouth and reswallowed Cyclic vomiting syndrome: -Two ...

Sexual health: what's in a name?

Gastrointestinal (GI) Disorders in Pregnancy

یکی از شکایات شایع دوران حاملگی، اختلالات معده ای روده ای (GI) است. اطلاع از میزان بروز و چگونگی اختلالات معده ای روده ای، نوع مراقبت از بیماران حامله را تعیین خواهد کرد. در این مقاله تغییرات فیزیولوژیک، بیماریهای عفونی، بیماریهای اتوایمون و تشکیل زخم در سیستم گوارشی دوران بارداری مورد بحث قرار گرفته است. هم چنین در مورد درمان و اثرات آنها روی جنین و نیز اثر حاملگی روی انواع اختلالات معدی روده...

Effects of L-Arginine and L-NAME on Duodenal Histologic Parameters in Female Wistar Rats

Introduction: Nitric oxide (NO), as a free radical, involves in several physiologic functions in GI tract such as nerve impulse transmission and vascular tonicity regulation. Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is the enzyme for the production of NO from L-Arginine which in turn inhibits by L-NGNitroarginine Methyl Ester (L-NAME). In the current work, we aimed to evaluate morphometric analysis of...

Rome III: New standard for functional gastrointestinal disorders.

The publication in the April, 2006 issue of Gastroenterology of Rome III has made available to the scientific world an enhanced and updated version of the Rome criteria and related information on the functional GI disorders. It is expected that the criteria will be adopted and used by physicians, pharmaceuticals and regulatory agencies worldwide, just as the previous Rome II became the standard...