Functional dyspepsia is one of the most prevalent functional gastrointestinal disorders.
Functional dyspepsia comprises three subtypes with presumed different pathophysiology …

Background: We performed a systematic review of the literature to compare the health‐
related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients with functional dyspepsia with either healthy …

Background & Aims Antidepressants are frequently prescribed to treat functional dyspepsia
(FD), a common disorder characterized by upper abdominal symptoms, including discomfort …

Objective Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a complex disorder, with debilitating epigastric
symptoms. Evidence suggests alterations in gastrointestinal (GI) motility, visceral …

Background Symptoms of dyspepsia significantly disrupt patients' lives and reliable methods
of assessing symptom status are important for patient management. The aim of the current …

Objective: Describe the development and evaluation of a new self-report instrument, the
patient assessment of upper gastrointestinal disorders-symptom severity index (PAGI-SYM) …

Background Functional gastrointestinal disorders are common and costly to the health-care
system. Most specialist care is provided by a gastroenterologist, but only a minority of …

Background The treatment of patients with functional dyspepsia remains unsatisfactory. We
assessed the efficacy of itopride, a dopamine D2 antagonist with acetylcholinesterase …

Background: It remains controversial as to whether delayed gastric emptying in functional
dyspepsia is associated with a specific symptom pattern, and it is unknown if gastric …

OBJECTIVE: Different subgroups can be identified in functional dyspepsia based on
symptom type or severity, and may correlate with pathophysiological disturbances. In …