Dyspepsia and dyspepsia subgroups in Japan: symptom profiles and experience with cisapride.
In 240 patients with symptoms of dyspepsia, recruited consecutively and investigated in 12 hospitals in Japan, 24.2% were diagnosed having organic dyspepsia; 75.8% had functional dyspepsia, of whom 63.2% were diagnosed by the investigator having dysmotility-like, 13.7% ulcer-like, 11.5% reflux-like, and 11.5% non-specific dyspepsia. There was, however, considerable overlap of symptom profiles. Cisapride therapy initiated in functional dyspeptic patients resulted in moderate or marked improvement in 79.1% of the patients with the highest response rates for dysmotility-like (85.2%), reflux-like (81.0%), and non-specific dyspepsia (76.1%) (versus 52.0% for ulcer-like dyspepsia).
Dept. of General Medicine, Hiroshima University, Japan.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D020117:Cisapride; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010880:Piperidines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D010880:Piperidines; D020117:Cisapride