Clinical Approach to Abdominal Pain as Functional Origin
Abdominal pain is a common symptom that patients refer to a hospital. Organic causes should be differentiated in patients with abdominal pain and treatment should be administered in accordance with the causes. A meticulous history taking and physical examination are highly useful in making a diagnos...
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| description | Abdominal pain is a common symptom that patients refer to a hospital. Organic causes should be differentiated in patients with abdominal pain and treatment should be administered in accordance with the causes. A meticulous history taking and physical examination are highly useful in making a diagnosis, and blood tests, imaging modalities, and endoscopy are useful for confirming diagnosis. However, in many cases, patients have functional disorders with no obvious abnormal findings obtained even if many diagnostic tests are performed. Patients with functional disorders usually complain the vague abdominal pain located in the center and other portions of the abdominal area. Although the most representative disease is irritable bowel syndrome, functional abdominal pain syndrome is currently researched as a new disease entity of functional abdominal pain. As various receptors related to functional abdominal pain have been discovered, drugs associated with those receptors are used to treat the disorders, and additional new drugs are vigorously developed. In addition, medical therapy with pharmacological or non-pharmacological psychiatric treatment is effective for treating functional abdominal pain. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a763433ee288494abfe850d214e774102022-12-22T03:50:00ZengJin Publishing & Printing Co.The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology1598-99922018-02-01712899310.4166/kjg.2018.71.2.89kjg.2018.71.2.89Clinical Approach to Abdominal Pain as Functional OriginHan Seung Ryu0Suck Chei Choi1Department of Internal Medicine and Digestive Disease Research Institute, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, KoreaDepartment of Internal Medicine and Digestive Disease Research Institute, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, KoreaAbdominal pain is a common symptom that patients refer to a hospital. Organic causes should be differentiated in patients with abdominal pain and treatment should be administered in accordance with the causes. A meticulous history taking and physical examination are highly useful in making a diagnosis, and blood tests, imaging modalities, and endoscopy are useful for confirming diagnosis. However, in many cases, patients have functional disorders with no obvious abnormal findings obtained even if many diagnostic tests are performed. Patients with functional disorders usually complain the vague abdominal pain located in the center and other portions of the abdominal area. Although the most representative disease is irritable bowel syndrome, functional abdominal pain syndrome is currently researched as a new disease entity of functional abdominal pain. As various receptors related to functional abdominal pain have been discovered, drugs associated with those receptors are used to treat the disorders, and additional new drugs are vigorously developed. In addition, medical therapy with pharmacological or non-pharmacological psychiatric treatment is effective for treating functional abdominal pain.http://www.kjg.or.kr/journal/view.html?doi=10.4166/kjg.2018.71.2.89Abdominal painFunctional gastrointestinal disordersRome criteria |
| spellingShingle | Han Seung Ryu Suck Chei Choi Clinical Approach to Abdominal Pain as Functional Origin The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology Abdominal pain Functional gastrointestinal disorders Rome criteria |
| title | Clinical Approach to Abdominal Pain as Functional Origin |
| title_full | Clinical Approach to Abdominal Pain as Functional Origin |
| title_fullStr | Clinical Approach to Abdominal Pain as Functional Origin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Clinical Approach to Abdominal Pain as Functional Origin |
| title_short | Clinical Approach to Abdominal Pain as Functional Origin |
| title_sort | clinical approach to abdominal pain as functional origin |
| topic | Abdominal pain Functional gastrointestinal disorders Rome criteria |
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