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background: dyspepsia is an upper gastrointestinal tract syndrome presenting epigastric pain and discomfort, fullness sensation, early satiety, nausea, vomiting, and belching. the prevalence of dyspepsia has been reported to be high all over the world. in this study, we reviewed studies reporting the prevalence of dyspepsia in iran and discussed the probable risk factors of dyspepsia to shed li...

Further evidence is presented that the epigastric pain of duodenal ulceration, situated between the rib margins and just below the xiphisternum, arises from the lower oesophagus.One-hundred patients with duodenal ulceration were divided into those with epigastric pain (61) and those with pain in the upper abdomen but not in the epigastrium (39). Perfusion of 0.1 N HCl into the lower oesophagus ...

Epigastric pain is a common symptom in the emergency department. Most epigastric pain is not fatal, except in acute myocardial infarction, aortic dissection, and abdominal aneurysm rupture. Epigastric pain can also be the only symptom of isolated spontaneous gastric artery dissection. We report the case of a 51-year-old woman diagnosed with neurofibromatosis who initially presented with only ep...

objective: to identify the non-obstetric causes and presentation of acute abdomen among pregnant women. materials and methods: this was a cross sectional hospital-based study among 128 pregnant women by face to face interview using a semi-structured questionnaire. this study was conducted at the gynecology & obstetric ward of 250 bed general hospital, noakhali, bangladesh, from january to augus...

infusion suggesting that, though the oesophageal mucosa might have been stimulated, the pain produced was not epigastric. We could not confirm that the cardiac sphincter pressure of those patients with epigastric pain was different from those without such pain. Moreover, radiological evidence of the capacity to herniate stomach, or of reflux of barium, as a measure of the incompetence of the an...

A 53-year-old woman with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and Stage 2 chronic kidney disease was hospitalized for early satiety, nausea, vomiting and epigastric pain. An abdominal computed tomography scan confirmed the presence of multiple bilateral renal cysts, and a markedly enlarged liver due to the presence of multiple enormous cysts (the biggest one 20 × 16 cm) occupyin...