Functional Dyspepsia

Clinicians and researchers have gathered findings on how functional dyspepsia develops and how it can be treated. This common condition has no structural cause in the digestive organs. The text describes the disease as shaped by interactions between the brain and the gut, as well as by the microenvironment within the digestive tract, and it draws on evidence from patients treated in practice.

Because the condition involves psychology, neurology, endocrinology and bacteriology alongside gastrointestinal physiology, it often resists treatment, and choosing a sound therapeutic rationale is difficult. The disease also differs from region to region, and standard drugs do not work equally well across populations. For that reason, the book focuses on results from clinical trials conducted in Japan.

The chapters cover new findings on treatment, including difficult cases and possible future approaches. The book is written for general practitioners, gastroenterologists and basic researchers.