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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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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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The management of peptic ulcer disease

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 2003
The period under review has seen little evolution in our understanding of the empiric management of dyspepsia. The role of Helicobacter pylori in this setting remains controversial, and a policy of risk stratification with the prudent use of test and treat and symptomatic therapy, with endoscopy for nonresponsive cases, seems to have some support from ...
Japie A, Louw, I N Solly, Marks
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PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE IN PREGNANCY

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 1992
In general, peptic ulcer disease during pregnancy is relatively rare. Certainly, gastroesophageal reflux symptomatology and hyperemesis gravidarum are the primary pregnancy-associated upper gastrointestinal tract illnesses. The symptoms of dyspepsia accompanies all three diagnoses and makes it difficult to determine whether peptic ulcer is playing a ...
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Hyperparathyroidism and Peptic Ulcer Disease

Archives of Surgery, 1968
THE FIRST hyperfunctioning parathyroid carcinoma with metastases was reported in 1939 by Meyer. 1 The association of peptic ulcer and hyperparathyroidism was emphasized by Rogers 2 in 1946 and by Rogers et al in 1947. 3 In 1950, Haynes reviewed all cases of hyperparathyroidism seen at the Mayo Clinic and found that 24% of the patients with proved ...
C, Ellis, D M, Nicoloff
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Peptic ulcer disease in children

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2000
A peptic ulcer in a child looks the same as it does in an adult, and many of the aetiologies of peptic ulcer disease in children are similar to those in adults. However, there are many differences between children and adults, especially in the areas of clinical presentation, the prevalences of different types of ulcer disease, and the prevalence of ...
R, Dohil, E, Hassall
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Peptic Ulcer Disease in Children

Pediatrics in Review, 2001
1. Gisela Chelimsky, MD* 2. Steven Czinn, MD† 1. 2. *Department of Pediatrics. 3. 4. †Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Objectives After completing this article, readers should be able to: 1. Describe the
G, Chelimsky, S, Czinn
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IS PEPTIC ULCERATION A HORMONAL DISEASE?

The Lancet, 1977
The pathogenesis of peptic ulceration cannot be explained by an abnormal capacity to secrete acid, for ulcers develop in patients who secrete acid normally. Duodenal and gastric ulcers have a common cause. The location of an ulcer in each individual is primarily determined by his capacity to secrete acid at that time.
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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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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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