Shin Fukudo, Toshikatsu Okumura, Masahiko Inamori, Yusuke Okuyama, Motoyori Kanazawa, Takeshi Kamiya, Ken Sato, Akiko Shiotani, Yuji Naito, Yoshiko Fujikawa, Ryota Hokari, Tastuhiro Masaoka, Kazuma Fujimoto, Hiroshi Kaneko, Akira Torii, Kei Matsueda, Hiroto Miwa, Nobuyuki Enomoto, Tooru Shimosegawa, Kazuhiko Koike
Managing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has attracted international attention because single-agent therapy rarely relieves bothersome symptoms for all patients. The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE) published the first edition of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for IBS in 2015. Much more evidence has accumulated since then, and new pharmacological agents and non-pharmacological methods have been developed. Here, we report the second edition of the JSGE-IBS guidelines comprising 41 questions including 12 background questions on epidemiology, pathophysiology, and diagnostic criteria, 26 clinical questions on diagnosis and treatment, and 3 questions on future research...
March 2021: Journal of Gastroenterology