title: [The irritable bowel syndrome. The prospects for improving the quality of life].
abstract: The lecture focuses on current concepts of etiology and pathogenesis of irritable colon syndrome and deals extensively with clinical manifestations of symptoms of the disease. Recommendation are given as to diagnosis and choice of optimal approaches to therapy with special reference to prospects for improvement of quality of the patients' life.
authors.forename: O Ia
authors.initials: OIa
authors.lastname: Babak
mesh_terms: D003106:Colon / Q000503:physiopathology; D003109:Colonic Diseases, Functional / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D009626:Terminology as Topic