objective: one of the most common global disorders is related to gastrointestinal system. functional dyspepsia (fd) defined as upper abdominal pain and discomfort in the absence of organic ailments is a prevalent disease without any confirmed medication. the purpose of this study was to find gastric disorders which might be coincidental to fd based on traditional persian medicine (tpm). materia...

Aim: To study the functional dyspepsia in chronic hemodialysis patients of CNHU-HKM of Cotonou. Methods: This descriptive, analytical and cross-sectional study ran from 1 September 2013 to 28 February 2014 in the University Clinic of Nephrology Dialysis of CNHU-HKM of Cotonou. It included all chronic renal failure patients on hemodialysis for at least 9 months prior to the survey. After identif...

Patients with dyspepsia/functional dyspepsia (FD) show frequent overlapping of other gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, such as irri-table bowel syndrome, and non-GI diseases, in addition to internal subgroup overlapping. These overlap patients have more frequent or more severe symptoms, poorer health-related quality of life and higher somatization scores, and they are more like-ly to experience a...

A review of the recent literature indicates that even though dyspepsia is common in adults, only limited data regarding dyspepsia in children is available. Spiroglou et al, in a recent study, found over 50% of their patients, to have functional dyspepsia with the more commonly encountered symptoms being nausea, vomiting, early satiety, awaking from sleep and increased belching. Hyams et al, in ...

TO THE EDITOR: We read the article by Tse et al. 1 with interest , which showed the usefulness of 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) as a reliable screening tool for psychiatric disorders in the patients with functional dyspepsia. Interesting studies were recently published showed anxiety to be linked to functional dyspepsia and especially postprandial distress syndrome, but not epig...

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori, Hp) colonizes the stomachs of approximately 20%-80% of humans throughout the world. The Word Healthy Organization (WHO) classified H. pylori as a group 1 carcinogenic factor in 1994. Recently, an increasing number of studies has shown an association between H. pylori infection and various extragastric diseases. Functional dyspepsia (FD) is considered a biopsychos...