Diagnosis of IBS: Symptoms, symptom-based criteria, biomarkers or 'psychomarkers'?

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 683-691

  Sood, Ruchit ^a   Law, Graham R ^b   Ford, Alexander C ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHROMOGRANIN A; CHROMOGRANIN B; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HISTAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE ANTIBODY; SECRETOGRANIN II; SEROTONIN; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TRYPTASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR 1; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ANXIETY; COLON MUCOSA; COLONOSCOPY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LOOSE FECES; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MANNING CRITERIA; MEDICAL HISTORY; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ROME CRITERIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOM; TIGHT JUNCTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; BLOOD; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; PSYCHOLOGY;

BIOMARKERS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES;

EID: 84908552178     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2014.127     Document Type: Review

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