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Symptoms such as abdominal pain, bloating, cramps, and indigestion are common, while irregularities of defecation are almost normal. I mean, who has a perfectly formed, soft, and easy-to-pass stool every day of the week, every week of the year? Nobody, that’s who. So, the combination of vague and subclinical abdominal symptoms, and variable bowel habits, has been made into a syndrome. This allows it to be defined and studied and provides fodder for countless GI fellows who need research projects. Has it helped patients? This is debatable. However, Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a fact of life, and as GI specialists, we have to come to grips with it … particularly because it includes conditions that have a surgical solution.

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What Do You Understand by the Term Irritable Bowel Syndrome? How Do You Define It? What Is the Pathophysiology?

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    2025年

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  • James M. Church

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Symptoms such as abdominal pain, bloating, cramps, and indigestion are common, while irregularities of defecation are almost normal. I mean, who has a perfectly formed, soft, and easy-to-pass stool every day of the week, every week of the year? Nobody, that’s who. So, the combination of vague and subclinical abdominal symptoms, and variable bowel habits, has been made into a syndrome. This allows it to be defined and studied and provides fodder for countless GI fellows who need research projects. Has it helped patients? This is debatable. However, Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a fact of life, and as GI specialists, we have to come to grips with it … particularly because it includes conditions that have a surgical solution.