Peptic ulceration: long term outcome.

Deaths from peptic ulceration.

Deaths due to peptic ulceration can be prevented only by curing the ulcer and preventing the ulcer diathesis permanently by either medical or surgical means. Recurrence of ulcers after drug treatment is a major problem, so continuous treatment is often necessary, but there is no evidence that this decreases mortality. Surgery is the only means of permanently removing the ulcer diathesis in most...

The pathology of peptic ulceration.

is justifiable. A psychiatric opinion is often helpful, but it must be borne in mind that the lesion is never purely hysterical, though there may be a background or ' overlay' of neurosis. If biliary regurgitation is the main complaint then reflux due to hiatus hernia or to obstruction of the stoma must be excluded. As indicated previously, the operation which the writer finds most satisfactory...

The surgery of peptic ulceration.

Long -Term Outcome Therapy of Toxic Diffuse Goiter in Tehran

SUMMARY In order to evaluate the long-ter m effects of antithyroids and ahlative therapy on patients with toxic diffuse goiter (TDG) in an iodine deficient region, 206 patients were studied in Tehran. Hyperthyroidism recurred in 50%, of 80 patients treated with Methimazole (MMI), from one week to 48 months after cessation of therapy. Another 40 patients remained in remission. Of 102 patients t...

Serum pyridoxal in active peptic ulceration.

Fasting serum pyridoxal was assayed by an automated microbiological system in 50 patients with endoscopically confirmed active peptic ulceration. Thirty patients had gastric ulceration, 14 had duodenal, four had pyloric canal ulceration, and two had both a gastric and a duodenal ulcer. Serum pyridoxal was below normal in 28 of the gastric ulcer group and in one of the duodenal ulcer group. No d...