Peptic Ulcers in Children

Surgery in bleeding peptic ulcers.

This paper records a study of 400 patients admitted for haematemesis and melaena. Emergency surgery was undertaken on selected patients but the overall mortality increased when more frequent emergency operations were performed in the latter half of the series.

Surgery in Bleeding Peptic Ulcers*

The proper management of haematemesis and melaena is a constantly recurring problem. Our material consists of 473 patients admitted for haematemesis and melaena between January, 1953, and July, 1958. Four hundred of these (87%) were for proved or suspected peptic ulceration, and the main object of this paper is to discuss the place of surgery in this group. The overall mortality of the ulcer gr...

Peptic ulcers. Stopping them for good.

Peptic ulcers and oral health status.

PURPOSE Helicobacter pylori infection plays a crucial role in pathogenesis of peptic ulcers; however, among infected individuals only a small percentage will develop peptic ulcers at any time during their life. This low virulence suggests that many additional factors beside H. pylori are implicated in pathogenesis of the disease. The aim of the study was to determine whether there is a relation...

Tannins, Peptic Ulcers and Related Mechanisms

This review of the current literature aims to study correlations between the chemical structure and gastric anti-ulcer activity of tannins. Tannins are used in medicine primarily because of their astringent properties. These properties are due to the fact that tannins react with the tissue proteins with which they come into contact. In gastric ulcers, this tannin-protein complex layer protects ...