The treatment of functional dyspepsia: present and future.

Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a prevalent, but frequently overlooked and/or under diagnosed disorder of gut-brain interaction (DGBI). Functional dyspepsia frequently co-exists with other DGBIs, and persistent symptoms have a significant impact on patients' quality of life. A variety of therapies (e.g. diet, probiotics, antibiotics, acid suppressants, neuromodulators, prokinetics) are employed to treat the multiple symptoms of FD, although none are uniformly effective. This review covers currently available therapies for the treatment of FD in addition to novel and emerging therapies that may change the treatment paradigm in the near future. PubMed, Embase and the Cochrane data bank were searched from 1990 to October 2022 for relevant articles. Dietary intervention, eradication of