Objective: H.pylori infection increases the risk of peptic ulcer in cirrhotic patients. The role of H.pylori in inducing peptic ulcer disease in chronic liver disease patients remains controversial. The objective was to see if etiology of peptic ulcer in cirrhotic patients is related to H.pylori infection. Methodology: Sixty cirrhotic patients were enrolled in the study. Peptic ulcer was detect...

The susceptibility of healed, experimental gastric ulcers to chemical carcinogenesis was investigated. Slowly healing gastric ulcers were induced by the acetic acid method in the fundic and pyloric gastric mucosae of inbred male Wistar rats. N-Methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) was administered in drinking water at a concentration of 50 mg/liter for 360 days after ulcer induction. Twenty...

Chronic skin ulcers are a significant challenge for patients and health service resources, and ulcer treatment often requires the competence of a specialist. Although e-health interventions are increasingly valued for ulcer care by giving access to specialists at a distance, there is limited research on patients' use of e-health services for home-based ulcer treatment. This article reports an e...

AIMS To determine the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in five main nationality groups with gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, and non-ulcer dyspepsia; and to determine the histopathological types of gastritis and assess the graded variables of Helicobacter associated gastritis. METHODS Gastric antral and corpus biopsy specimens from 437 patients were examined for the prevalence of H pylori, 337...

Unpublished data from the Hospital In-patient Enquiry in England, Wales, and Scotland between 1958 and 1972 show that the frequency of admissions to hospital for peptic ulcer, particularly gastric ulcer, has fallen. This seems more likely to have been due to a true fall in the incidence of ulcer than to changes in treatment. Some three times as many people are admitted to hospital with duodenal...

Fistula formation between the duodenum and the skin of the anterior abdominal wall is a rare complication of duodenal ulcer disease, most often felt to occur following ulcer surgery. The development of a spontaneous duodenocutaneous fistula in association with duodenal ulcer has not been hitherto reported. A middle aged man with a history of peptic ulcer for more than 10 years, and a vagotomy a...

The effect of Methanolic, chloroform and diethel ether extracts of Mimosa pudica was investigated in rats to evaluate the anti-ulcer activity by using three models, i.e. Aspirin, Alcohol and pyloric ligation models experimentally induced gastric ulcer. The parameters taken to assess anti-ulcer activity were volume of gastric secretion, PH, free acidity, total acidity and ulcer index. The result...

A 53-year-old man was admitted to the Tung Wah Hospital in May 1999 to receive treatment for a venous ulcer on his left leg. The ulcer measured 12 cm in diameter. Wound swab culture yielded a mixed growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and coliform bacilli. On the day after admission, maggots were found emerging from the edges of the ulcer (shown below). Hydrogen peroxide was used to irrigate the ul...

The ABO blood group and ABH secretor status have been determined for 368 patients with a duodenal ulcer, 202 patients with a gastric ulcer, 83 patients with a stomal ulcer, 105 patients with gastric cancer, 102 patients with diabetes mellitus, and a control group of 610 subjects consisting of healthy persons and of patients with other conditions attending the same hospital. The results have bee...