Criteria for use in population surveys to study the epidemiology of ankylosing spondylitis were proposed at the CIOMS Symposium in Rome in 1961 (Kellgren, Jeffrey, and Ball, 1963), and a revised set of criteria were introduced at the next symposium in New York in 1966 (Bennett and Wood, 1968). The Rome and New York criteria are shown in Tables I and II respectively. The Rome criteria specify th...

Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) are common worldwide and cover a wide range of disorders attributable to the gastrointestinal tract that cannot be explained by structural or biochemical abnormalities. The diagnosis of these disorders relies on the symptom-based Rome criteria. In 2016 the Rome criteria were revised for infants/toddlers and for children and adolescents. In this revi...

Institute of Medical Pathology, Universit a Cattolica, Rome 00168, Italy; Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, National Research Council, Rome 00143, Italy; Institute of Human Physiology, Medical School, Universit a Cattolica, Rome 00168, Italy; Unit of Vascular Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Milan 20138, Italy; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Univ...

CONTEXT Many individuals experience lower gastrointestinal tract symptoms, most commonly attributable to functional conditions. These individuals are frequently diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) based on their symptoms; however, some may require additional testing or referral to specialists before this diagnosis is made. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the literature of the acc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) are a heterogeneous group of heritable connective tissue disorders. Gastrointestinal manifestations in EDS have been described but their frequency, nature and impact are poorly known. We aimed to assess digestive features in a national cohort of EDS patients. METHODS A questionnaire has been sent to 212 EDS patients through the French pa...

Functional gallbladder disorder is a motility disorder of the gallbladder that results in decreased gallbladder contractility and colicky pain. The term is used to cover a constellation of symptoms that have led to their codification in the Rome III criteria (Table 1).1 Previously, functional gallbladder disorder was called chronic acalculous cholecystitis, acalculous cholecystitis, biliary dys...

We aimed to evaluate general features of children with chronic constipation and classified them according to the Iowa criteria and Rome II criteria in order to analyze applicability of these criteria in our population. The medical records of 485 children who were referred for chronic constipation over a six-year period were evaluated retrospectively. We found that 7.7% of the cases had an organ...