EMOttawa - By: Miguel Cortel - October 11, 2018
"Definitions:
- Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms (MUPS)
- Patient complaints and symptoms for which no medical etiology is identified
- Somatic Symptom Disorder
- Somatic symptoms that are distressing to a patient for at least 6 months
- Importantly, patients have disproportionate and excessive thoughts and behaviours towards these symptoms
- Functional Symptom
- Another term for MUPS commonly used in all specialties
- Every specialty sees patients with functional symptoms, for example:
- Cardiology – non-cardiac chest pain
- Gastroenterology – IBS
- Rheumatology – fibromyalgia
- Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)
- Previously conversion disorder
- Term for a constellation of functional symptoms that are neurologic in nature
- DSM 5 updated criteria will be explained below"