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Peptic Ulcer Disease: An Update

American Pharmacy, 1993
Peptic ulcers can develop when there is an imbalance between gastric acid secretion and gastroduodenal mucosal defense. Investigators are looking at the role of Helicobacter pylori in the development of peptic ulcer disease; eradication of the microorganism may reduce recurrence.
R R, Berardi, V A, Dunn-Kucharski
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The treatment of peptic ulcer disease

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 1996
The literature published in the period under review identified some areas of key clinical and scientific importance in the treatment of peptic ulcer disease. Attention was drawn to the possibility that Helicobacter pylori may be less important as an etiologic factor in ulcer disease in the United States than in the rest of the world.
J A, Louw, I N, Marks
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Complications of Peptic Ulcer Disease

Digestive Diseases, 2011
There are four major complications of peptic ulcer disease (PUD): bleeding, perforation, penetration, and obstruction. Complications can occur in patients with peptic ulcer of any etiology. Despite improvements in the medical management and the lower overall incidence of PUD, there are conflicting data about the incidence of potentially life ...
Tomica, Milosavljevic, Mirjana, Kostić-Milosavljević, Ivan, Jovanović, Miodrag, Krstić   +3 more
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Peptic Ulcer Disease in Children

Pediatrics In Review, 1995
The term peptic ulcer disease describes a group of disorders, rather than a single pathologic process. It is recognized increasingly in children, often with long-term ramifications. In the past decade, management of patients who have peptic ulcer disease has changed dramatically.
A G, Mezoff, W F, Balistreri
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Peptic ulcer disease today

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2006
Over the past few decades, since the introduction of histamine H(2)-receptor antagonists, proton-pump inhibitors, cyclo-oxygenase-2-selective anti-inflammatory drugs (coxibs), and eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection, the incidence of peptic ulcer disease and ulcer complications has decreased.
Yuhong, Yuan, Ireneusz T, Padol, Richard H, Hunt   +2 more
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Peptic Ulcer Disease in Children

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America, 1994
Although much of the understanding of the pathogenesis of ulcer disease is derived from data studying adults, there are certain manifestations and presentations that differentiate ulcers in children from those seen in adults. Therapy is aimed at reducing acid or improving mucosal defense. The recent recognition of the association of Helicobacter pylori
D E, George, M, Glassman
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Peptic Ulcer: An Infectious Disease?

Hospital Practice, 1987
Campylobacter pylori, isolated in 1982, is likely to change medical thinking about the etiology and treatment of chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer.
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Stress and Peptic Ulcer Disease

JAMA, 1999
ALEXANDER THE GREAT DIED AT THE age of 32 years, with acute abdominal pain that began after several days of binge drinking. Might it have been from a perforated peptic ulcer? Founding a great empire may be an extraordinary example of life stress, but stress is currently out of fashion as a cause of ulcer. For many years the dominant etiologic model was
S, Levenstein, S, Ackerman, J K, Kiecolt-Glaser, A, Dubois   +3 more
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The Course of Peptic Ulcer Disease

Medical Clinics of North America, 1991
Peptic ulcer disease usually has periodic exacerbations and remissions. Pain can disappear without total healing of the ulcer crater and can be absent when an ulcer is present. Changes in the incidence of ulcer disease have been noted in recent years. Genetic predisposition, infection with H.
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Epidemiology of Peptic Ulcer Disease

Clinics in Gastroenterology, 1984
In the United States about four million people have active peptic ulcers and about 350,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Four times as many duodenal ulcers as gastric ulcers are diagnosed. Approximately 3000 deaths per year in the United States are due to duodenal ulcer and 3000 to gastric ulcer.
J H, Kurata, B M, Haile
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