INTRODUCTION: Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGD) are common among paediatric population. Abdominal pain related FGD are the most common subgroup found, of which irritable bowel syndrome is the most common. The ...

BACKGROUND: Abdominal pain is a common paediatric disorder affecting approximately 10% of children worldwide. The majority of affected children has no identifiable organic cause for their symptoms and considered to have ...

INTRODUCTION: Objective of this study was to assess the effects of body mass index (BM1) on gastric motility abnormalities in children with abdominal pain-predominant FGIDs (AP- FGIDs). METHODS: Gastric motility parameters ...

BACKGROUND: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common paediatric functional gastrointestinal disorder. It is subtyped into diarrhoea predominant (IBS-D), constipation predominant (IBS-C), mixed (IBS-M) and untypable (IBS-U) ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Abdominal migraine (AM) is an uncommon disease in children. Approximately 0.2 to 1% of children suffer from this distressing problem. Pathophysiology of this disorder has not been studied in children. The ...

PURPOSE: Conventional assessment of anorectal function with defecating videoproctography is semiquantitative and the high radiation exposure precludes prolonged or repeated testing. The aim of this study was to develop a ...