A personalized systems medicine approach to refractory rumination.
J Eval Clin Pract
; 17(3): 515-9, 2011 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-21569182
ABSTRACT
RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
As with many functional disorders, rumination syndrome poses a great dilemma when approached via standard of care. This case report illustrates how rumination syndrome may be effectively approached using the systems medicine.METHOD:
The patient's treatment involved two distinctively different treatment cycles. Initially she was treated in an academic tertiary inpatient and outpatient multidisciplinary program with a primary symptom-based focus with little improvement. She subsequently sought care at a systems-based integrative medicine clinic within an academic family medicine centre, which identified the inciting events, diagnosed the current pathology and developed a stepwise treatment plan.RESULTS:
The patient is now rumination free.CONCLUSION:
Chronic or refractory diseases, especially when regarded as 'functional' may be approached by a systems medicine methodology, which allows physicians to fine-tune the vast amount of specific pieces of knowledge to achieve an integrated approach to managing the whole person.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Enfermedades Funcionales del Colon
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Biología de Sistemas
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Medicina de Precisión
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Eval Clin Pract
Asunto de la revista:
PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Año:
2011
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos