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Management of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is based on the positive diagnosis of the symptom complex, limited exclusion of underlying organic disease and institution of a therapeutic trial....
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal (GI) tract disorder that has heterogeneous clinical presentations such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, and abdominal distension. It is known...
Traditional symptom-based therapies of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are directed at the relief of individual IBS symptoms, but they are often of limited efficacy in addressing the entire symptom complex....