Managing patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders is one of the most challenging areas of medicine. Although diagnosis is typically achieved using the Rome Criteria, [...]
Five Things Patients with Disorders Involving Brain-Gut Interaction Need to Know About Effective Doctor-Patient Communications April 2018 Functional gastrointestinal disorders, what we are now [...]
Central neuromodulators (antidepressants, antipsychotics and other CNS targeted medications) are increasingly used for treatment of functional GI disorders (FGIDs), now recognized as Disorders [...]
Vomiting as an occasional symptom is an adaptive physiological process where the body seeks to rid itself of offending substances ingested. It may [...]
Gastroparesis is a type of vomiting where the normal coordination of gastric emptying of ingested food is delayed. As a result, food doesn’t empty [...]
Narcotic bowel syndrome (NBS) is characterized by a paradoxical increase in abdominal pain that is associated with continuous or increasing dosages of narcotics. [...]
Opioids were one of the earliest classes of medications used for pain across a variety of conditions, but morbidity and mortality have been increasingly [...]
Opioids were one of the earliest classes of medications used for pain across a variety of conditions, but morbidity and mortality have been increasingly [...]
From left: Dr. Drossman, Jeanetta Frye, MD, Karen Finke,PA-C, both of the University of Virginia, and Megan Huff, PA-C, Drossman Gastroenterology. I [...]
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