Systematic studies of psychiatric disorders in non -ulcer dyspepsia are rare. The aim of the present study was to find out the nature and prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in non-ulcer dyspepsia. Thirty three patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia and thirty with duodenal ulcer were assessed for psychiatric morbidity with the help of the regular version of the SADS, and diagnosed according to DSM-...

BACKGROUND & AIMS It has been reported that some patients develop functional digestive disorders, particularly irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), after acute gastroenteritis (AGE). However, the presence of dyspepsia has not been specifically addressed. We prospectively evaluated development of dyspepsia and IBS during a 1-year follow-up in a cohort of adult patients affected by a Salmonella enteri...

evolving approach to dyspepsia and nonulcer dyspepsia

Background: Upper GI endoscopy is an established procedure for investigating a wide range of upper conditions especially inflammatory and malignant diseases stomach esophagus. A good correlation in diagnosis can be achieved by complementing endoscopic findings with histopathology biopsy specimens.
 Methods: Both retrospective prospective study was carried out at department pathology, KIMS,...

effective symptomatic relief in patients with dysmotility-like functional dyspepsia, and is widely used in the treatment of gastritis. Gastric motility may be regulated by multiple neural systems. Studies on the mechanisms involving the neuronal systems suggest the involvement of cholinergic and noradrenergic systems. Additionally, various studies have suggested the existence of dopamine neuron...

OBJECTIVE Dyspepsia usually presents first in primary care. There are many reasons for referral including urgent problems (for example, haematemesis and melaena), treatment failure, or to exclude serious pathology. Referral will change the population characteristics of primary and secondary care dyspeptics. Many of the guidelines for primary care dyspepsia, however, are based on secondary care ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate efficacy and cost effectiveness of Helicobacter pylori eradication treatment in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia infected with H pylori. DESIGN Systematic review of randomised controlled trials comparing H pylori eradication with placebo or another drug treatment. Results were incorporated into a Markov model comparing health service costs and benefits of H pylori erad...

Despite being a large ethnic group within the South-East Asia, there is a paucity of reported literatures on dyspepsia in the Malay population. Recent population-based studies indicate that uninvestigated dyspepsia, based on the Rome II criteria, is reported in 12.8% and 11.6% of Malays in the urban and rural communities respectively. Organic causes of dyspepsia including upper gastrointestinal...

INTRODUCTION Descriptions of upper gastrointestinal symptoms date back thousands of years ( 1 ). “Stomach disorders” became an obsession of developed countries in the eighteenth century ( 2 ) when the term dyspepsia was fi rst coined ( 3 ). A systematic review ( 4 ) reported that ~20% of the population has symptoms of dyspepsia globally. Dyspepsia is more common in women, smokers, and those tak...