Treatment of Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers

The medical treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers.

Etiological factors of duodenal and gastric ulcers.

BACKGROUND/AIMS We aimed to determine the etiology of patients with duodenal and gastric ulcers. METHODS 140 patients diagnosed with peptic ulcer between April 2002-2009 were enrolled in this prospective study. Two biopsy specimens were collected from the antrum and corpus for histology and one for rapid urease testing, and stool samples were analyzed for Helicobacter pylori antigen. Serum ca...

Incidence of Duodenal and Gastric Ulcers

The literature, and particularly the statistical evaluation of peptic ulcer, is vast and ordinarily there should be little excuse for adding to it, unless one has some definite reason. It is well recognized that all over the world this disease pattern in the last few decades has undergone certain changes with regard to the duodenal-gastric ulcer ratio, sex incidence, and the occurrence of compl...

Duodenal and gastric ulcers: consensus on management

THE AUTHORS HIGHLIGHT NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN RESEARCH on Helicobacter pylori. There is now consensus that all patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent duodenal or gastric ulcers who have a positive test result for H. pylori should be treated for the infection. Patients presenting with complications of ulcers, such as bleeding, should also be treated. H. pylori has recently been classified as a d...

The Etiological Factors of Duodenal and Gastric Ulcers

1.1 Background Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) had a tremendous effect on morbidity and mortality until the last decades of the 20th century. Development of new effective and potent acid suppressants and the discovery of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) are two important steps that caused a reduction in the prevalence of peptic ulcer. With the discovery of H. pylori, causes, pathogenesis and treatmen...

Simultaneous perforation of benign gastric and duodenal ulcers.

Finney (I900) stated that in 20 per cent. of patients with a perforated peptic ulcer, more than one perforation occurred. Fifty years later Aird gives a figure of less than I per cent.; both report multiple perforations of a single large ulcer. Yet, while every volume of the 'Index Medicus' contains hundreds of references to peptic ulceration, reports of double perforations are rare. Masson and...