background : helicobacter pylori is a major human gastric for various gastro duodenal diseases.a number of putative virulence factors such as dupa, homb, tnpa have been described. to date,none were found to be significantly associated with specific h. pylori-related diseases (e.g. gastric cancer and duodenal ulcer). methods : the primary aim of this study was to test the h. pylori hrga genotype...

Surgical repair of perforated gastroduodenal ulcer has been extensively practiced in emergency clinical situations. Non-invasive conservation treatment is regaining the attention towards management of such ulcers. We report the case of a 50-year-old male smoker who presented in the emergency unit with acute generalized abdominal pain and guarding in the epigastric and right upper quadrant regio...

Peptic ulceration was thought to be rare in Nigerians until the 1930s when Aitken (1933) and Rose (1935) reported on this condition. Chronic duodenal ulcers, in particular, are being reported with increasing frequency (Ellis, 1948; Konstam, 1959). The symptoms and complications of duodenal ulcers in Nigerians are the same as elsewhere, but the relative incidence of these complications differs m...

A three year old Thoroughbred colt was admitted to our clinic because of chronic inapetence, weight loss and exercise intolerance. Clinical examination, blood examination and endoscopy were carried out. The endoscopic appearance of the distal esophagus was characterized by extensive and severe ulceration. Gastroscopy revealed severe diffuse ulceration of the entire nonglandular mucosa. A diagno...

The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented. The series shows considerable increase in the proportion of females to males and of ulcers of the stomach compared to pyloro-duodenal perforations in contrast to British experience. Forty-five per c...

Abnormalities of duodenal motility have been described in patients with duodenal ulcer and in experimental ulcers in rats and it has been postulated that they could be pathogenic in peptic ulcer disease. We have investigated with an isotopic technique whether duodenal bulb clearance or duodenal transit are abnormal in duodenal ulcer. Six patients with inactive and six with active duodenal ulcer...

required because of persistent leakage from perforated ulcers or if the perforations are larger than 2–3 cm. Common alternatives are a novel Graham patch closure, Billroth procedure, jejunal serosal patch, and duodenojejunostomy with a Roux-en-Y anastomosis [1,2]. Many of these are complicated surgical procedures which require prolonged general anesthesia. Our patient, an 81-year-old man, was a...

We present a unique case of duodeno-duodenal intussusception from a duodenal bulb ulcer. A 38-year-old man presented with nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Computed tomography showed duodenal intussusception. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) showed a linear gastric ulcer and a duodenal bulb ulcer with an overlying blood clot. Helicobacter pylori status was positive. Intussusception resolved...