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Laparoscopic Repair of Perforated Peptic Duodenal Ulcer [PDF]

, 2010
Although prevalence of peptic ulcer is decreasing, the number of peptic ulcer perforations appears to be unchanged. This complication of peptic ulcer is traditionally surgically treated.
Ante Kvesić, Dražen Servis, Ferdinand Slisurić, Jozo Kristek, Kristijan Ćupurdija, Leonardo Patrlj, Marijan Kolovrat, Mislav Čavka, Vlatka Čavka, Željko Bušić   +9 more
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Who should be treated for Helicobacter pylori infection? [PDF]

, 1999
Helicobacter pylori infection affects approximately half of the worldԸ?s population. In Hong Kong, approximately 55% of the population is infected with this organism.
Ching, CK, Wong, BCY
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Choosing and using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in haemophilia [PDF]

, 2016
The management of pain and inflammation in haemophilic arthropathy is challenging due to the lack of anti-inflammatory analgesic agents perfectly suitable for this population.
Baigent, Biere-Rafi, Braden, Brown, Button, Cagnoni, Caldwell, Castellsague, Chen, Crofford, Curhan, Daly, de Abajo, Dolan, Dworzynski, Eyster, FitzGerald, Forbes, Forman, Fransen van de Putte, Garcia-Poza, Gisbert, Gonzalez-Perez, Grosser, Hallas, Harirforoosh, Hawkey, Hinz, Holstein, Huerta, Hunt, Hunt, Huntjens, Inwood, Jansen, Kamphuisen, Kearney, Konkle, Kulkarni, Kulkarni, Laine, Lanas, Lanas, Lanza, Lin, Makris, Mannucci, Masso Gonzalez, McGettigan, Mittal, Odom, Ofman, Papatheodoridis, Park, Patrignani, Pergantou, Rattray, Riley, Rostom, Scarpignato, Scarpignato, Scarpignato, Schulman, Segasothy, Segasothy, Solomon, Soucie, Srivastava, Stephensen, Steven, Trelle, Tuskey, Van, White, Yeomans, Young   +75 more
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The Use of Abdominal Drains in Perforated Peptic Ulcer [PDF]

Kirkuk Journal of Medical Sciences
Background: Peptic ulcer disease’s second-most common complication is perforation, constituting a surgical emergency with approximately 30% short-term mortality and 50% morbidity. Patients with untreated duodenal ulceration face a 10% lifetime risk
Hast Jabali, Hussein Ahmed
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Investigation of laparoscopic therapy in 56 cases of duodenal ulcer perforation [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Although conservative therapy has been acceptable as the first-line therapy for duodenal ulcer (DU) perforations, surgical therapies are known to have certain advantages.
Ishido, Nobuhiro, Kadowaki, Yoshihiko, Mori, Takashi, Okamoto, Takahiro, Tamura, Ryuji   +4 more
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NSAID induced perforated peptic ulcer in a pediatric sickle cell patient

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2016
Peptic ulcer disease is a relatively rare entity in the pediatric population. Given the trend toward multimodal pain control for pain crises in Sickle Cell Disease patients, they are at an increased risk of developing complications secondary to peptic ...
Crystal Johnson-Mann, Kathryn Rawlings, Ricardo A. Arbizu, Andre Hebra   +3 more
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An assessment of failure to rescue derived from routine NHS data as a nursing sensitive patient safety indicator (report to Policy Research Programme)

, 2010
Objectives: This study aims to assess the potential for deriving 2 mortality based failure to rescue indicators and a proxy measure, based on exceptionally long length of stay, from English hospital administrative data by exploring change in coding ...
Bottle, Alex, Griffiths, Peter, Jones, Simon   +2 more
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Liver abscess following ingestion of a foreign object [PDF]

, 2013
A 31 year old, previously healthy female presented to A&E on 24/07/2012 with a 2 day history of colicky epigastric pain and spiking fever; however on investigation no pathology was found except for an ovarian cyst of 4cm.
Abela, Lauren, Borg Xuereb, Keith
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Medical versus surgical treatment for refractory or recurrent peptic ulcer [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Refractory peptic ulcers are ulcers in the stomach or duodenum that do not heal after eight to 12 weeks of medical treatment or those that are associated with complications despite medical treatment. Recurrent peptic ulcers are peptic ulcers
Gurusamy, KS, Pallari, E
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REDUCING MORTALITY FROM PERFORATED PEPTIC ULCER IN NEPAL

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2003
A study was undertaken to compare mortality from perforated peptic ulcer before and after introduction of pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative measures to improve clinical care of patients affected by this condition.
Neil A. Strugnell
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