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*The pathogenesis of functional dyspepsia is obscure, but a postinfectious or inflammatory origin has been suggested for irritable bowel syndrome.103 | |||
*The | *Moreover, gastroparesis has been reported after a viral infection.104 Using a questionnaire in 400 consecutive patients with functional dyspepsia, we found that 17% had a history with acute onset, suggestive of a postinfectious origin.10 | ||
*These patients had a particularly high prevalence of impaired accommodation. Because the proximal stomach in these patients relaxed to administration of a nitric oxide donor but did not respond to sumatriptan, which releases nitric oxide through activation of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)1 receptors on nitrergic neurones, the abnormality is attributable to a dysfunction at the level of gastric nitrergic neurons.10 | |||
*As previously mentioned, whether psychological factors have a pathogenetic role in functional dyspepsia, especially in patients with hypersensitivity to gastric distention, or whether they are disease modulators determining health care seeking, perception of symptoms, and the outcome of the disorder is not known. | |||
* | *There are several sources of evidence for a role of the central nervous system in visceral hypersensitivity. | ||
*Studies in experimental animals indicate that acute psychological stress facilitates increased sensitivity to visceral stimuli.105 In line with such a finding, rats genetically predisposed to anxiety have been shown to display an increased visceral sensitivity.106 | |||
*Similarly, in humans, the perception of gut distention has been found to be reduced during periods of distraction and increased during periods of attentiveness or during mental stress associated with anxiety.107 | |||
*However, the role of central factors and stress in visceral hypersensitivity and symptom generation in functional dyspepsia remains to be established. | |||
*Finally, an association between dyspeptic symptoms and a functional polymorphism in a G-protein subunit was reported.108 | |||
*It remains to be established whether this genotype is associated with any specific pathophysiologic mechanism, the likelihood of postinfectious functional disorders, or altered psychosocial features. | |||
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Revision as of 22:24, 29 January 2018
- The pathogenesis of functional dyspepsia is obscure, but a postinfectious or inflammatory origin has been suggested for irritable bowel syndrome.103
- Moreover, gastroparesis has been reported after a viral infection.104 Using a questionnaire in 400 consecutive patients with functional dyspepsia, we found that 17% had a history with acute onset, suggestive of a postinfectious origin.10
- These patients had a particularly high prevalence of impaired accommodation. Because the proximal stomach in these patients relaxed to administration of a nitric oxide donor but did not respond to sumatriptan, which releases nitric oxide through activation of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)1 receptors on nitrergic neurones, the abnormality is attributable to a dysfunction at the level of gastric nitrergic neurons.10
- As previously mentioned, whether psychological factors have a pathogenetic role in functional dyspepsia, especially in patients with hypersensitivity to gastric distention, or whether they are disease modulators determining health care seeking, perception of symptoms, and the outcome of the disorder is not known.
- There are several sources of evidence for a role of the central nervous system in visceral hypersensitivity.
- Studies in experimental animals indicate that acute psychological stress facilitates increased sensitivity to visceral stimuli.105 In line with such a finding, rats genetically predisposed to anxiety have been shown to display an increased visceral sensitivity.106
- Similarly, in humans, the perception of gut distention has been found to be reduced during periods of distraction and increased during periods of attentiveness or during mental stress associated with anxiety.107
- However, the role of central factors and stress in visceral hypersensitivity and symptom generation in functional dyspepsia remains to be established.
- Finally, an association between dyspeptic symptoms and a functional polymorphism in a G-protein subunit was reported.108
- It remains to be established whether this genotype is associated with any specific pathophysiologic mechanism, the likelihood of postinfectious functional disorders, or altered psychosocial features.