Cardinal Symptoms in the Gastroenterology: Dyspepsia (Indigestion, non ulcerative dyspepsia NUD, functional dyspepsia) | Definition, Types, Symptoms, Diagnostic

Synonym

non ulcerative dyspepsia NUD, functional dyspepsia

Source: www.niddk.nih.gov

Definition

all symptoms of upper abdomen without organic disease

Types

• Ulcus typ: abdominal pain by fasting
• Reflux typ: heartburn, especially by flat lying
• Motorial typ: fullness after eating, blech
• Idiopathic: alters of all these typs

Symptoms suggesting functional dyspepsia

• No weight los
• Symptoms just at day
• Patients of anxious type
• Patients are in general very well
• Symptoms are continuerlich

Diagnostic

Functional dyspepsia is a diagnosis by exclusion, All differential diagnosis must be excluded with its suitable diagnostic.

• Stomach/ duodenal ulcera
• Reflux esophagitis
• Esophagitis of all causes
• Chronic pancreatitis
• Cholecystolithiasis
• Tumors
• Helicobacter pylori

Source: Duale Reihe: innere Medicine: 3 Auflage