Dyspepsia is a syndrome consisting of epigastric pain, burning, fullness, discomfort, early satiety, nausea, vomiting and belching. Functional dyspepsia (FD) is diagnosed if upper gastrointestinal endoscopy does not show structural abnormality explaining these symptoms. 8%-30% and 8%-23% of Asian people suffer from of uninvestigated dyspepsia and FD, respectively. Most patients with uninvestiga...

BACKGROUND H.pylori (H.p.) infection of the gastric mucosa is causally related to chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, MALT-lymphoma and gastric cancer. There is also an evidence for a link between the H.p.-infection and non-ulcer dyspepsia and even extragastric diseases. The number of patients treated against H.p. infection is expanding. Although in the last years the PPI-based triple ther...

Median arcuate ligament syndrome is an anatomic and clinical entity characterized by dynamic compression of the proximal celiac artery by the median arcuate ligament, which leads to postprandial epigastric pain, vomiting, and weight loss. These symptoms are usually nonspecific and are easily misdiagnosed as functional dyspepsia, peptic ulcer disease, or gastropathy. In this report, we presented...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of colloidal bismuth subcitrate (De Nol) on symptoms and gastric histology in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia. In a single centre trial, patients with food related upper abdominal pain not caused by ulcer disease were randomised to receive one tablet of colloidal bismuth subcitrate or matching placebo four times daily for eight weeks. Seventy ...

Parinamashoola is a very common clinical problem in our day to day practice. Its clinical picture is very much similar to non ulcer dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease. Dhatrilauha is herbomineral compound drug. Which is being used in Ayurveda for same. The present study was planned to assess the efficacy of Dhatrilauha on scientific parameters in this study total number of cases were taken into...

SIMPLE gastric ulcer occasionally progresses without causing any inconvenience to the patient, who may be in apparently good health, until the rude awaking due to perforation indicates the serious nature of his malady. The diagnosis of perforation is generally sufficiently obvious, and there are definite sign5 and symptoms which lead one to a correct diagnosis. ^ history of indigestion can usua...

BACKGROUND Helicobacter pylori infection remains a common problem and previous studies in the Caribbean revealed infection in over 50% of patients undergoing upper endoscopy. OBJECTIVE The present study determined the prevalence of H pylori infection in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in the Turks and Caicos Islands over a two- year interval. METHODS All patients with u...

BACKGROUND Dyspepsia is a common syndrome and provides primary care physicians with a significant workload. To optimize the management of dyspepsia, several guidelines have been developed. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of upper gastrointestinal diseases and their relationship to Helicobacter pylori infection in dyspeptic patients referred for upper endoscopy b...

Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen and a gram-negative, spiral shaped and microaerophilic bacteria with persistence colonization in gastric mucosa, causes gastroduodenal inflammation and destruction, resulting in diseases such as duodenal ulcer disease, gastric ulcer disease. When H.pylori discovered by Warren and Marshall, effective therapy developed for this infection and resu...

BACKGROUND Helicobacter Pylori infection has been strongly associated with upper gastrointestinal (GI) disease, especially duodenal ulcer. Endoscopy or contrast radiography is needed to diagnose and appropriately manage peptic ulcer disease. These diagnostic procedures, however, are time consuming and expensive; endoscopy is invasive and contrast radiography cannot help in the diagnosis of H py...