Morris Gordon, Marc A Benninga, Rachel Borlack, Osvaldo Borrelli, Ashish Chogle, Anil Darbari, Jernej Dolinsek, Jip Groen, Julie Khlevner, Carlo Di Lorenzo, Hannibal Person, Miguel Saps, Vassiliki Sinopoulou, Julie Snyder, Merit Tabbers, Nikhil Thapar, Arine Vlieger
INTRODUCTION: To date, no international guidelines have been published for the treatment of paediatric functional abdominal pain disorders (FAPDs), subcategorised into functional abdominal pain-not otherwise specified (FAP-NOS), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), functional dyspepsia and abdominal migraine (AM). We aim for a treatment guideline, focusing on FAP-NOS, IBS and AM, that appreciates the extensive array of available therapies in this field. We present the prospective operating procedure and technical summary protocol in this manuscript...
December 20, 2023: BMJ Paediatrics Open