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Filter by:To evaluate the safety and tolerability, treatment effect on abdominal pain, and dose response of MD-7246 administered orally to patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D).
This study evaluates the effect of auricular neurostimulation on mitochondrial bioenergetics and inflammation through vagal nerve modulation via non-invasive percutaneous electrical nerve field stimulator in children with functional gastrointestinal disorders.
This study will assess whether participants who receive music therapy during inpatient care report a decrease in pain and whether music therapy influences factors such as family satisfaction.
The aim of this study is to identify the frequency of enteric zoster using salivary varicella zoster virus (VZV) DNA PCR in patients who visit the emergency room due to acute abdominal pain.
Diet components are important factors in pathogenesis of functional gastrointestinal disorders, especially in the irritable bowel syndrome. Fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAP) are a group of short chain, poorly absorbed and osmotically active carbohydrates, which can induce gastrointestinal symptoms because of rapid fermentation in different segments of the gut. Low FODMAP diet is a novel treatment option with proven efficacy in reducing symptoms of functional gastrointestinal disorders in adults. Conversely, although functional abdominal pain is a common health problem in children, the efficacy of a low FODMAP diet remains understudied in this population. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of two diets: a low FODMAP diet and a diet based on standard dietary advice of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), on abdominal symptoms in children with functional abdominal pain.
Patients diagnosed with acute cholecystitis benefit from emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Patients who had emergency LC showed improvement in quality of life in one month compared to those treated. Delayed LC (after the acute cholecystitis has passed) and less time to recover from work. This strategy reduces the risk of repeated referrals with more pain or pancreatitis. There are many studies on the efficacy of intraoperative intraperitoneal bupivacaine(IPBV) with elective LC on pain of IPBV. However, the prospective study of reducing the postoperative pain of emergency LC - IPBV is very few. This study will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy of IPBV in patients with emergency LC.
Nerve entrapment as a cause of chronic abdominal pain is frequently overlooked. A series of nerves pass through the muscles of the abdomen before reaching the skin to carry sensations. They can get trapped within the muscles leading to severe pain resulting in a condition known as Abdominal Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome (ACNES). ACNES affects between 10-30% of patients with chronic abdominal wall pain. A definitive diagnosis of ACNES is obtained by anaesthetising these nerves. Initial management includes education and avoidance of known triggers. It is common practice to inject steroid with local anaesthetic during the diagnostic injections itself to prolong pain relief. Like other nerve entrapment conditions, this is also refractory to medical treatment. Hence repeated injections and nerve entrapment release surgery are commonly carried out. In Aberdeen, a number of patients have been treated for this condition. A cohort of patients have benefitted with injection alone while recurrence has been noted in patients who have undergone surgery. This project aims to gain more understanding about the clinical course of patients with suspected ACNES by evaluation of the clinic progress.
Pain in the right lower abdomen is one of the commonest reasons patients present to general surgeons as an emergency. Whether or not such patients have appendicitis is crucial to their assessment. In UK practice, when the diagnosis is unclear, ultrasound scanning (US) is commonly used to investigate the problem. US is very safe but it will only visualise the appendix in the minority of cases. As a result, the sensitivity for diagnosing appendicitis in this setting is probably only 5-30%. Alternatively, computed tomography (CT) is an accurate way of diagnosing appendicitis in over 90% of cases. CT scans are readily available and with modern scanners, high quality images can be achieved with lower radiation doses. Unenhanced scanning avoids the use of contrast media and permits further reductions in ionising radiation exposure.
An international, multicenter, epidemiological, observational study investigating the prevalence of Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) disease among participants with recurrent episodes of abdominal pain of no obvious etiology.
Complex functional abdominal pain disorders (FAPD) with co-occurring anxiety are highly prevalent in children, can be very disabling, and are not responsive to currently available treatments. This research aims to better understand the neural mechanisms involved in a promising nonpharmacological treatment for FAPD to ultimately guide the development of more targeted treatment approaches for afflicted youth.