Neurogastroenterology & Motility Center
The Neurogastroenterology and Motility Center at UPMC is best known for its groundbreaking work on constipation and abdominal pain.
The center focuses on problems of intestinal function in both men and women, including:
- irritable bowel syndrome
- chronic abdominal pain (visceral hyperalgesia)
- swallowing disorders (impaired or painful swallowing, noncardiac chest pain, heartburn due to backflow of stomach contents, and other complications such as chronic hoarseness or coughing)
- gastroparesis (impaired emptying of the stomach)
- nausea and vomiting
- dyspepsia
- pelvic floor dysfunction
- fecal incontinence
- chronic constipation
- diarrhea
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