Pediatric gastroenterology: Current clinical and diagnostic aspects
The paper considers the significance of current laboratory and instrumental studies that make it possible to diagnose digestive disease at their early stage in children starting in infancy. In addition to eaophagogastroduodenoscopy and ultrasonography, which are extensively used in pediatric practice, the promising diagnostic techniques are video capsule endoscopy, multispiral computed tomography, new laboratory tests: hepatic fibrosis markers, fecal calprotectin, etc. Emphasis is placed on the value of the evolution of gastroenterological diseases from their symptom/syndrome to the manifestation of clinical forms (a nosological entity).