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Hans Tornblom

Hans Tornblom

Hans Törnblom is a Swedish gastroenterologist — Associate Professor at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, and Senior Consultant in Gastroenterology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

Aug 19, 2026

8:47
And thinking a little bit about streamlining, although we could spend an hour just on this one topic alone, what is your simplified treatment algorithm for functional dyspepsia? How do you start treating a patient? Is it with a specific diet and then use an H2 block or a PPI or a prokinetic? Could you just simply lead us through your personalized pathway for an FD patient?
9:13
Yeah, of course.
9:14
Try to keep it simple as well.
9:17
To start with, during the diagnostic process, H. pylori can be considered as the cause of dyspeptic symptoms, not of FD, but of dyspeptic symptoms.
9:29
You can say that H. pylori issue should be solved.
9:32
before you make the diagnosis of functional dyspepsia.
9:38
So you can say that's part of the diagnostic process rather than the therapeutic process, even if it involves a therapeutic intervention for the symptoms of dyspepsia.

9 MINS LATER

18:24
How do you tease these two disorders out in terms of symptoms, and does the treatment for these two disorders vary?

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