The pathologies of functional dyspepsia and gastroparesis are so similar that the two conditions should be considered part of the spectrum of organic neuromuscular disorders, researchers have found.
For clinicians, therefore, the focus should be less on making a diagnosis of one condition or the other and more on trying to manage the patient’s dominant symptoms, said Pankaj J. Pasricha, MD, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Neurogastroenterology, in Baltimore, and his