Acute and chronic constipation together accounted for nearly half of all cases of acute abdominal pain in children treated at one hospital. The study also suggests that physicians should do a simple ...

As part of our NF Clinic’s ongoing efforts to maintain a patient-centered focus, the NF Community Advisory Board was developed last year with the objective of providing input and direction regarding ...

Functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are among the most commonly diagnosed medical problems in pediatrics. Symptom-based Rome III criteria for FAP and IBS have been ...

A 12-year-old female was sent by her pediatrician to the emergency department for investigation of severe suprapubic abdominal pain that radiated to her lower back. She reported that the pain had ...

Worried single mother consoling her little girl who is having stomachache at home. Experts discuss the clinical features of, treatments for, and need for further research on the topic of abdominal ...

Currently, children with functional abdominal pain are diagnosed with one of the abdominal-pain-related functional gastrointestinal disorders (AP-FGIDs) defined by the Rome III criteria The Rome ...

Dr. Akash Gupta (Medicine and Pediatrics): A 6-month-old boy was seen in the emergency department of this hospital because of gastrointestinal bleeding and abdominal pain. The patient had been in his ...

What Are the Symptoms of Abdominal Epilepsy? Little is known about abdominal epilepsy because of it's rarity.. With abdominal epilepsy, it's thought that seizures occur that primarily affect the ...