research advances during recent years offer new insight into therapy and the prevention of gastrointestinal ulcers by using medicinal plants. flavonoids, tannins, triterpenoids, fatty acids and essential oils are among the most effective herbal constituents that have potential antiulcerogenic properties, and most of them could be found in zataria multiflora. z. multiflora is one of the indigeno...

Critically ill patients are at risk of developing stress ulcers in the upper digestive tract. Multiple risk factors have been associated with the development of this condition, with variable risk of association. Decades of research have suggested the benefit of using pharmacologic prophylaxis to reduce the incidence of clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding, with no reduction in o...

A 58-year-old man with end-stage renal disease presented with hypotension and emesis, pale conjunctivae, and a distended abdomen. Labs revealed hypercalcemia and leukocytosis. Abdominal imaging showed gastric pneumatosis. Endoscopy demonstrated significant hemorrhage and necrosis in the gastric cardia and fundus. Biopsies revealed acute ulcerative gastritis and focal intravascular calcium phosp...

The majority of foreign body ingestions occur in children between the ages six months and three years. Most cases are brought to medical attention by a child's caregivers following witnessed or reported ingestion. Many asymptomatic have transient symptoms at time Clinical management focuses on identifying treating risk for complications, which depend location type body. A battery lodged esophag...

Stress ulcer prophylaxis and risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia To the Editor: Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding has long been recognized as a potential life-threatening complication of stress-induced ulceration in critically ill patients. Stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP) using pharmacologic agents is considered by many clinicians to be an important care component of patients ...