OBJECTIVES Does artichoke leaf extract (ALE) ameliorate symptoms of Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in otherwise healthy volunteers suffering concomitant dyspepsia? METHODS A subset analysis of a previous dose-ranging, open, postal study, in adults suffering dyspepsia. Two hundred and eight (208) adults were identified post hoc as suffering with IBS. IBS incidence, self-reported usual bowel pa...

We read the article by McOmber et al1McOmber M. al.Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020; 18: 375-384 e1Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (5) Google Scholar with great interest. In this study, authors show that small intestinal permeability, measured ratio of orally ingested and urinary excreted lactulose/mannitol, is increased in first-degree relatives children irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) fun...

Background Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), as a chronic digestive disorder, impacts extensively on the quality of life, emotional well-being and self-identity. Chronic illness disrupts taken-for-granted notions about self. No qualitative study was found regarding patients' experience of life with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in Iran. Objective To explore the self-perception of lived experie...

This paper reviews recent psychological studies of patients with the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or 'functional abdominal pain'. Many studies have used unreliable or invalid methods of assessment and some have confused personality with treatable psychiatric illness. Reliable and valid measures have indicated that 40-50% of patients with recently diagnosed functional abdominal pain have demon...

Objective The aim of the present study is to assess the difference in the detection rates of small-bowel lesions in chronic abdominal pain (CAP) patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and non-IBS. Patients Ninety-nine CAP patients who were scheduled to undergo capsule endoscopy (CE) to investigate their abdominal symptoms were included in this study. Among the subjects, 34 patients fulfil...

INTRODUCTION Resilience and Psychological Wellbeing are two important concepts in adaption of patients to chronic disease conditions. GOAL To compare resilience and psychological wellbeing in women with irritable bowel syndrome and normal women. METHODS This was an analytical-comparative study. The statistical population consisted of all patients with irritable bowel syndrome visiting Imam ...

Over the past decade, one of the major efforts in GI motility research at Cedars-Sinai has focused on identifying the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), as well as improving diagnostic tools available to clinicians. This work has been inspired by the diffi culties inherent in the diagnosis and treatment of a vaguely defi ned syndrome. Typically, IBS is diagnosed when other disea...

TO THE EDITOR: We appreciate sincerely the interest of Dr. Jung on our paper on the “Prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome: a community based study from Northern India”. We do agree with the points raised by Dr. Jung. We limited the age group of participants between 18-64 years in this study. In elderly, the clinical features of colonic malignancy may mimic that of irritable bowel syndrome (IB...