Understanding Disorders of Function of Stomach: Causes, Symptoms, and Management

What is it?

Functional disorders of the stomach are pretty common, and are characterized with gut-brain disorders of interaction. These disorders are not related to any structural abnormalities, rather the function refers to neuromuscular abnormalities. Gastroduodenal functional disorders include:
-Functional dyspepsia- symptoms of indigestion without a known cause
-Belching disorders characterized by the excessive belch and disturbance
-Nausea and vomiting disorders
-Rumination syndrome- a rare behavioral disorder in which food is brought back up from the stomach. It's either rechewed, swallowed, or spit out.
-Centrally mediated abdominal pain syndrome (CAPS) – continuous or frequently recurrent abdominal pain, either not or infrequently related to gut function, and associated with some loss of daily activities.

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Additional names

This group contains additional names:
- Functional dyspepsia
- Achlorhydria
- Gastrostomy Complications
- Dilation of Stomach

Signs & symptoms

Symptoms may include epigastric fullness, pain, burning sensation, bloating, discomfort, nausea, early satiety, vomiting undigested food.

Diagnosis

These disorders must be considered only after excluding structural and metabolic diseases by taking thorough medical history, routine laboratory studies, and ultrasound imaging. Then, solid-phase gastric emptying studies may detect gastroparesis, electrogastrography detects disturbed myoelectrical dysfunction. Also, there are more invasive tests such as intraluminal pressure and gastric tone recording.

Treatment

There is no cure for disorders of function of stomach and treatment may include dietary counseling and gastroprokinetic agents.

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Source of Information - We analyze big data of more than 23 million patients de-identified medical records from the following sources:

National Institution of Health ∙ World Health Organization ∙ University of Illinois hospital