Abdominal pain and bowel dysfunction: Is it possible a simplified diagnostic flow-chart? - Digestive and Liver Diseasedoi:10.1016/S1590-8658(01)80448-5F. BressoN. SaponeB. DemarchiT. CammarotaA. SarnoR. BonardiA. MussoM. Astegiano
The original definition of RAP was intermittent abdominal pain in children between the ages of 4 and 16 years that persists more than 3 months and affects normal activity.1 The Pediatric Rome Committee now has subdivided RAP into the terms irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional abdominal ...
The corresponding flow chart for the Abdominal Massage for Bowel Dysfunction Effectiveness Research (AMBER) trial is shown in Fig. 1, and the schedule of enrolment, interventions and assessments is provided in Fig. 2. Fig. 1 AMBER participant pathway Full size image Fig. 2 Schedule of ...
Consort flow chart Full size image Descriptive statistics will be used to summarise and compare the quantitative outcome measures to include (1) complication rates: failed insertion, drain leakage or blockage, cellulitis, bleeding, pain at site of insertion not controlled by analgesia, peritonitis, se...
Treatment assignment was not revealed until data collection was completed. All women were admitted into the postpartum ward and discharged on the fourth day after operation. Thus, all women took all of their medications. All women completed the diary chart and returned it at the end of the ...
Paediatric functional abdominal pain disorders, currently referred to as disorders of gut–brain interaction, comprise irritable bowel syndrome, functional dyspepsia, abdominal migraine and functional abdominal pain not otherwise specified, as defined by the Rome IV diagnostic criteria. Functional abdominal pa...
Flow chart of the selection of study patients before and after PSM. PSM, propensity score matching Full size image Primary endpoints before and after PSM Before and after PSM adjustment, a comparison was made between the remission rates of abdominal distension 24 h after operation in both groups...
One in three patients who went to Accident and Emergency Department (A&E) due to abdominal pain was discharged without a diagnosis [1]. While the number of patients who sought emergency care due to abdominal pain experienced an upward trend, the number of non-specific diagnoses increased during...
Download: Download full-size image Fig. 1. Flow chart of patients presenting for emergency abdominal surgery. The pre-operative characteristics of the control and intervention groups are shown in Table 1. The majority of patients were over the age of 60 years, male, and had POSSUM (physiologica...
abdominal pain for the first organ; applying one or more second deep-learnt machine-trained classifiers to the second portion of the data, the application resulting in second likelihoods of multiple causes of abdominal pain for the second organ; and generating an image of the patient from the ...