Algoritmo diagnóstico y terapéutico para la dispepsia funcional / Diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm in functional dyspepsia

Introducción. “Dispepsia” deriva del griego y significa “mala digestión”. Dado que se trata de una entidad que abarca distintas disciplinas, se realizó una reunión de consenso para discutir y acordar un algoritmo diagnóstico y terapéutico nacional. Objetivo: Consensuar un algoritmo nacional aplicable a la dispepsia funcional. Material y métodos: En junio de 2005 un grupo multidisciplinario se reunió para diseñar y proponer un algoritmo diagnóstico y terapéutico para dispepsia funcional. Resultados: Darle prioridad a la relación médico-paciente, a las medidas higiénicos dietéticas y al reaseguro. Luego dividimos a los pacientes de acuerdo a si tienen o no signos de alarma. Si están presentes, se los estudia, si no, se los divide de acuerdo a los síntomas principales en dolor o malestar epigástrico. Si tienen dolor, se realiza VEDA y ecografía abdominal. Si son positivos, tratamiento de la enfermedad. Si los estudios son negativos o tiene malestar epigástrico: prueba terapéutica. La pruebas serían: Dolor: Antagonistas H2, esperar 4 a 6 semanas, respuesta negativa: IBP, esperar 4 a 6 semanas, sin no hay mejoría: consulta Psiquiátrica o Psicológica. Malestar: Proquinéticos y esperar 4 a 6 semanas. Si no hay respuestas: Antidepresivos a bajas dosis, esperar 4 a 6 semanas y si no responde: Bloqueantes Cálcicos, Sumatriptan o Trimebutina. En todos los casos se pueden sumar ansiolíticos en personalidad ansiosa. Conclusiones: Se logró un consenso diagnóstico y terapéutico multidisciplinario de orden nacional para los pacientes con dispepsia funcional.

Introduction. Dyspepsia is a word that means bad digestion. In the conviction of which it is a question of an entity that it includes different disciplines, we realize a meeting consensus to discuss and to resolve a diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm of national order. Objetive: To agree on a national algorithm applicable to the functional dyspepsia. Material and methods: In June 2005 a multidisciplinary group met to design and to propose a diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm for the functional dyspepsia. Results: Priority gives to the medical-patient relationship and to the reinsurance. Then we divide the patients if they have signs of alarm. If they are present we studied them, if not we divide them, in accordance to the principal symptoms, in pain or epigastric discomfort. If they have pain we realized an endoscopy and a abdominal ultrasound scan. If they are positive, treatment of the disease. If the studies are negative or it has epigastric discomfort we propose a therapeutic test. Pain: H2 bloquers, wait 4 to 6 weeks, if it not response we propose a PPI, wait for 4 to 6 weeks, if there is no response psychiatric or psychological consultation. Discomfort: proquinetics, wait for 4 to 6 weeks if there are no answers, antidepressants in low doses, wait for 4 to 6 weeks if there are no answers, ca. bloquers, sumatriptan or trimebutina. In all cases we can add tranquillizers in anxious personality. Conclusions: A multidisciplinary dignostic and therapeutic consensus of national order for the patients with functional dyspepsia was obtained.

Abnormal colonic transit time in untreated celiac sprue

Motility disorders of the digestive tract have long been implicated in the pathophysiology of diarrhea in patients with celiac sprue. However, the contribution of the colon to the intestinal transit of celiac sprue has not been reported. Our aim was to determine whether sprue alters gut transit and whether differences in the clinical status of the disease influences colonic transit. We prospectively studied 25 patients with untreated celiac sprue, 15 treated patients and 15 healthy controls. Oro-cecal transit time, measured by the lactulose breath H2 test, was significantly delayed in untreated patients compared with treated patients and controls (p<0.001 and p<0.01 respectively). The delayed transit through the stomach and small bowel was not related to the presence of the steatorrhea. Transit of radiopaque makers, a measure of total colonic tansit, was significantly faster in untreated patients (p<0.05). The major finding was that this abnormal colonic behavior was principally due to a subpopulation of untreated patients with very fast transit times (<18 hours). A weakly significant inverse correlation between transit and fecal weight (r:-0.55, p<0.01), and between transit and steatorrhea (r:-0.38, p<0.05), was observed. We confirm previous descriptions of delayed oro-cecal transit time in untreated patients, and also provide the first evidence that disordered colonic transit contributes to the pathophysiology of the diarrhea in sprue.