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Irritable bowel syndrome: diagnostic approaches in clinical practice

Author(s) -

Burbige

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

clinical and experimental gastroenterology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113

H-Index - 30

ISSN - 1178-7023

DOI - 10.2147/ceg.s12596

Subject(s) - medicine , irritable bowel syndrome , disease , clinical practice , small intestinal bacterial overgrowth , functional gastrointestinal disorder , organic disease , colonoscopy , intensive care medicine , medline , somatization , physical therapy , psychiatry , anxiety , colorectal cancer , political science , law , cancer

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a functional gastrointestinal disorder long considered a diagnosis of exclusion, has chronic symptoms that vary over time and overlap with those of non-IBS disorders. Traditional symptom-based criteria effectively identify IBS patients but are not easily applied in clinical practice, leaving >40% of patients to experience symptoms up to 5 years before diagnosis.

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