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Functional dyspepsia

No short cut to distinguish organic diseases from dyspepsia

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology volume 11, pages 207–208 (2014)Cite this article

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Functional dyspepsia has been defined in various ways, but the diagnostic yield of these definitions has not been well validated. Ford et al. have now reported the diagnostic yield of the Rome III criteria, which was not superior to previous definitions. The study also indicates the difficulty of excluding organic diseases using these criteria.

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Miwa, H. No short cut to distinguish organic diseases from dyspepsia. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 11, 207–208 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2014.19

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