Irritable bowel syndrome
AUTHORS : Kulikov V.V.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Moscow, Russia
YEAR : 2010
Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional bowel disease characterized by abdominal pain, diarrhea, or constipation. 15–20% of the world’s adult population
(about 22 million) suffer from this disease. W. Gumming first described a typical clinical picture of a patient with this syndrome in 1849, and then William Osler (1892) designated this condition as mucous colitis. Subsequently, the terminology of this disease was presented as spastic colitis, intestinal neurosis. The term Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) was coined by De-Lor in 1967.
