Peculiarities of psychological status in patients with functional dyspepsia: postprandial distress syndrome.

Introduction: Among all causes of epigastric pain or burning, early satiety, bothersome fullness, the most common one is functional dyspepsia (FD). Analysis of psychological peculiarities of patients with FD becomes one of the key problems. The aim: To compare the level of anxiety, depression, and social functioning of patients with postprandial distress syndrome (PDS), patients with epigastric pain syndrome (EBS), and healthy volunteers.

[Psychopharmacological approach with the usage of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in functional dyspepsia treatment].

Objective: To assess the efficacy of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) escitalopram in patients with functional dyspepsia (FD). Treatment results showed reduction of dyspeptic symptoms as well as significant decrease of anxiety and depression and improvement of quality of life in patients, who were additionally prescribed SSRI.

[Psychological status of patients with different clinical variants of irritable bowel syndrome].

In the study of psychological status of patients with different clinical variants of irritable bowel syndrome we found each variant to be characterized by worry, but the anxiety is typical only of IBS with diarrhea, while depression is typical of IBS with constipation in contrast to other IBS variants (nonspecific IBS and mixed IBS ones).