title: Functional dyspepsia. No short cut to distinguish organic diseases from dyspepsia.
abstract: Functional dyspepsia has been defined in various ways, but the diagnostic yield of these definitions has not been well validated. Ford et al. have now reported the diagnostic yield of the Rome III criteria, which was not superior to previous definitions. The study also indicates the difficulty of excluding organic diseases using these criteria.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan 663-8501.
authors.forename: Hiroto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miwa
mesh_terms: D003938:Diagnostic Techniques, Digestive System; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male