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DIGESTIVE DISEASES AND SCIENCES
Volume 45, Issue 8, Pages 1680-1684Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005550019308
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dyspeptic symptoms; gastric hypersensitivity; functional dyspepsia; barostat
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Recently, the concept of gastric hypersensitivity was introduced as an important factor in the pathophysiology of functional dyspepsia (FD), but it is unclear which symptoms can predict the presence of gastric hypersensitivity. Therefore, we evaluated the relationship between common symptoms of FD and various parameters measured by gastric barostat in FD patients. Gastric barostat tests were performed in 64 FD patients and 20 healthy control subjects without gastrointestinal symptoms. Individual symptoms such as early satiety, postprandial fullness, sense of delayed emptying, nausea, vomiting, and epigastric soreness were collected and graded as mild to severe. Basal tone, gastric compliance, and postprandial receptive relaxation were similar in controls and patients, the threshold of abdominal discomfort was lower in FD patients than in controls (8.9 +/- 3.6 mm Hg and 14.5 +/- 3.7 mm Hg, respectively, P < 0.05). However, there were no significant differences in the threshold of abdominal discomfort according to the severity of individual symptoms. In conclusion, a simple evaluation of individual symptoms could not predict the presence of gastric hypersensitivity.
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