Prevalence of helicobacter pylori was evaluated by urease test in 513 patients undergoing GI endoscopy, in hospital No1 Kerman university of medical sciences and health services from June 1992 through April 1993. H. Pylori was detected in 56.9℅ of tested samples by urease test. There was no significant correlation with sex, age and cigarette smoking. Prevalence of H.pylori was 16℅ in control gr...

gastric ulcer is one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal (gi) disorders, which affects approximately 5-10% of people during their life. in recent years, plentiful works have been carried out on herbal medicine to clarify their potential efficacy in gastric ulcer prevention or management. tripleuro-spermum disciforme is one of the indigenous plants that is readily available and has been tradi...

Stomal Ulceration Stomal ulceration may follow anastomosis of the stomach to any other part of the alimentary canal. I have indicated in my first lecture that by I954, stomal ulceration had followed in over 50 per cent. of the cases in which I had carried out a gastrojejunostomy for duodenal ulcer in I943. In such cases at the second operation, the duodenal ulcer, although often reported as act...

In Central Europe and in South Africa duodenal ulcer disease has been reported to occur twice as often in migrant workers as in the indigenous population. To investigate the reasons for this phenomenon the joint effect of occupation and nationality on the prevalence of gastric and duodenal ulcer was studied in a survey of 73,000 active members of the German workforce. Non-ulcer dyspepsia and ga...

In normal, duodenal ulcer, and gastric ulcer subjects the two main forms of gastrin, G17 and G34, were estimated by radioimmunoassay in fasting serum and after feeding. Two antisera were used: one showing high specificity for G17, the other specific for the common COOH-terminus of G17 and G34 and so allowing estimation of G34 by difference. Basal G17 was similar in gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer...

Systematic studies of psychiatric disorders in non -ulcer dyspepsia are rare. The aim of the present study was to find out the nature and prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in non-ulcer dyspepsia. Thirty three patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia and thirty with duodenal ulcer were assessed for psychiatric morbidity with the help of the regular version of the SADS, and diagnosed according to DSM-...

Peptic ulcer is one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal disorder, commonly occurs in developed countries. The present work was carried out to evaluate antiulcer effect of Ipomoea batatas (L) dietary tuberous roots. The Ethanolic extract of Ipomoea batatas (EEIB) was prepared by dynamic maceration for 7 days at room temperature using 70% ethanol (V/V). The antiulcer activity was evaluated...

Introduction: Pressure ulcer is a kind of skin disorder that is developed due to increase of localized pressure on a part of body. Due to the terrible consequences of pressure ulcer, it is essential to prevent it. A common method to prevent is using risk assessment scales. The aim of this review study is to identify the best risk assessment to prevent and reduce the incidence of pressure ulcer....

Background and aims: Cardiac surgery patients are at high risk of pressure ulcers. In the present study, we determined the incidence of pressure ulcer in patients who were admitted to open heart cardiac surgery intensive care unit and related risk factors. Methods: With using convenience sampling all the eligible patients who were admitted to Boali cardiac surgery during June to August 2015 we...