Chronic Dyspepsia

Chiropractic manual intervention in chronic adult dyspepsia.

Chronic gastritis, alcohol, and non-ulcer dyspepsia.

An investigation of 102 men comprising alcoholics, patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia, and healthy controls is reported. It demonstrates that alcohol is a cause of chronic gastritis and the severity of the mucosal lesion is directly related to the duration of excess drinking. Contrary to popular belief, chronic gastritis does not give rise to symptoms. The effect of alcohol on the gastric mucosa...

Chronic Appendicitis in Its Relation to Dyspepsia

I do not claim any originality for my views on this subject, and it is with a view to emphasise the experience of others that I venture to record my experience. Some years ago Sir Berkeley Moynihan published a paper on this subject, and advanced the opinion that there was a very large number of cases of chronic and even acute dyspepsia that were directly dependent on an irritable condition of t...

Functional Dyspepsia and Chronic Gastritis Associated with Enteroviruses

After decades of research, functional dyspepsia (FD) remains one of the most elusive gastrointestinal disorders. Endoscopic appearance of mild inflammation of the gastric mucosa without ulceration and microscopic evidence of mild chronic inflammation are often considered as normal findings since no etiology could be found other than H. pylori. Enteroviruses infect the gastrointestinal tract and...

Chronic dyspepsia pain in general practice--its causes and diagnosis.

One hundred consecutive patients who had consulted their general practitioner because of upper abdominal pain related to eating, were investigated after initial interviews by the general practitioner, a medical registrar and the same consultant physician. Thirty seven had active upper gastrointestinal or biliary tract diseases, including 29 with peptic ulcers. The general practitioner and consu...