Clinical trial: Effect of Acupuncture on Patients With Functional Dyspepsia: a Multi-center, Randomized, Waitlist-controlled Trial (NCT01921504)

Eligibility criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:

          -  Age of 18 ~ 75, with a elementary-school diploma or higher, should be able to read and
             write Korean

          -  One who meet Rome III FD criteria* and has been suffering from FD for the last 3
             months with symptom onset at least 6 months prior to diagnosis

               -  One or more of the following:

                    1. Bothersome postprandial fullness

                    2. Early satiation

                    3. Epigastric pain

                    4. Epigastric burning

          -  One who checks more than 4 points on visual analogue scale (VAS) for dyspeptic
             symptoms

          -  One who has normal esophagogastroduodenoscopy results within a year and been diagnosed
             with FD by a specialist consultation

          -  One who receives no other treatments during the study

          -  One who voluntarily agrees with study protocol and signs an written informed consent

        Exclusion Criteria:

          -  One who has peptic ulcer or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)

          -  One who has obvious signs of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

          -  One who has alarm symptoms (weight loss, black or tar stool, dysphagia)

          -  One who has serious structural disease (disease of heart, lung, liver or kidney) or
             mental illness

          -  One who has had surgery related with the gastrointestinal tract (Appendectomy more
             than 6 months ago is acceptable)

          -  One who is pregnant or breastfeeding

          -  One who is taking drugs which might affect gastrointestinal tract (Wash-out period: 2
             weeks before participating in the trial)

          -  One who is HIV-positive

          -  One who has a problem of malabsorption or maldigestion

          -  One who has difficulties in attending the trial or receiving treatments (e.g
             Paralysis, serious mental illness, dementia, drug addiction, busyness, severe disorder
             in vision or hearing, impossibility of visit, illiterate, etc.)

          -  One who does not want to sign the informed consents

          -  One who has clotting disorders or leukopenia, pace-maker, seizure disorders or is
             taking anticoagulant therapy
No condition on gender to be admitted to the trial.
No healthy subjects accepted to join the trial.
Subject must be at least 18 Years old.
Subject must be at most 75 Years

Patient description (medical language): A 63-year-old man comes to the clinic for recent unintentional weight loss. The patient also has epigastric discomfort after meals. He has no known medical problems and takes no medications. His blood pressure is 130/75 and pulse rate is 88/min. He is not febrile. Upper endoscopy shows a lesion in the stomach that shows typical features of diffuse-type adenocarcinoma presenting with signet ring cells that do not form glands.

Patient description (patient's own words): I went to the clinic because I had been losing so much weight that it was concerning. I'm a 63-year-old guy, and it is something rather unusual. I'm always suffering from stomachache after every meal. I've never been sick, and I don't take any medicine. The doctor took my blood pressure and told me it was 130/75, and my pulse rate was 88/min. I'm not febrile! I also had to do an endoscopy, and they found a lesion in my stomach that shows typical features of stomach cancer. I'm totally devastated...

Does the patient match the trial criteria? Contradiction