Saria Dbar, Olga Akhmadullina, Elena Sabelnikova, Nikolai Belostotskiy, Asfold Parfenov, Svetlana Bykova, Sergey Bakharev, Elena Baulo, Alexandra Babanova, Lilia Indeykina, Tatyana Kuzmina, Tatiana Kosacheva, Aleksey Spasenov, Alina Makarova
BACKGROUND: Functional bowel disorder (FBD) may be caused by a decrease in disaccharidase activity. Thus, the timely diagnosis of disaccharidase deficiency could lead to a better prognosis in patients with this condition. AIM: To determine the potential value of intestinal disaccharidases glucoamylase, maltase, sucrase, and lactase in understanding the etiology and pathogenesis of FBD. METHODS: A total of 82 FBD patients were examined. According to the Rome IV criteria (2016), 23 patients had diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), 33 had functional diarrhea, 10 had constipation-predominant IBS, 4 had functional constipation, and 12 had mixed IBS...
June 16, 2021: World Journal of Clinical Cases