BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the rates of physical disorders in those with recurrent depression. AIMS To examine self-reported physical disorders in people with recurrent depression compared with a psychiatrically healthy control group. METHOD As part of a genetic case-control association study, 1546 participants with recurrent depression and 884 controls were interviewed about life...

In a randomised controlled trial cimetidine 1 g daily for six weeks was compared with placebo in the treatment of recurrent ulcers after gastrectomy or vagotomy for duodenal ulcer. Healing, assessed endoscopically, was seen in seven out of 12 patients given cimetidine and in five out of 12 controls. Four of the controls whose ulcers did not heal were subsequently treated with cimetidine, and in...

Risk factors for delayed duodenal ulcer healing during treatment with ranitidine (300 mg daily) were examined in a multicentre German study of 1923 patients with endoscopically proved, recurrent duodenal ulceration. Healing rates, per protocol, were 39.5% at two weeks, 70.9% at four weeks, and 93.2% at eight weeks. Prospective testing of five, predefined risk factors indicated that smoking (p =...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new medicinal plant extract (Ankaferd Blood Stopper®, ABS) on the healing process of aphthous ulcers. A total of 50 patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) who have had currently a single oral ulcer in the mouth were included in the study. Patients were randomly divided in 2 groups: ABS group and Kenacort group (triamcinolon...

A 74-year-old recovering alcoholic man presented with progressively increasing epigastric pain for 2 months. The patient had a prior medical history of Child-Pugh Class A alcoholic cirrhosis and esophageal varices, gastric ulcer diagnosed 4 years earlier with documented endoscopic healing of the ulcer after 6 weeks of omeprazole therapy (40 mg/d), and poorly controlled diabetes with a recent he...

Background and objectives: Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is a common disease of the nonkeratinized oral mucosa characterized by painful ulcerations and inflammation, causing difficulty in eating, swallowing, and speaking. Symptomatic treatment is considered for this disease due to the ambiguity of the exact etiology. The beneficial therapeutic effects of Persica and Propolis mouthwashes l...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of the following study is to determine and secondary objective is to compare the efficacy and safety of 5% amlexanox oral paste in the treatment of recurrent minor aphthous ulcers and also to evaluate the recurrence rate of aphthous ulcers over a period of 1 year. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study was conducted on 100 patients diagnosed to have recurrent...

From September 1990 to October 1992, Helicobacter pylori was searched for in 426 children, 2 days to 16 years old, requiring upper fibroscopy for various symptoms. H. pylori was detected in 77 children (18.1%). Recurrent abdominal pain was present in 63.3% of the patients with H. pylori versus 48.6% of a control group of 74 age-matched children negative for H. pylori, weight loss was present in...

BACKGROUND Triester glycerol oxide gel (Protefix® Queisser Pharma, Germany) is a new topical agent that has the property of adherence to the oral mucosa by forming a lipid film which protects against mechanical trauma and may help to reduce oral tissue moisture loss and inflammation. The aim of this clinical trial was to determine the efficacy of a topical TGO gel and to also compare it with tr...

An ideal operation for a benign disease, such as duodenal ulcer, must be effective, relatively free of serious postoperative complications and standardized for effective performance. Highly selective vagotomy, an operation known to have few side effects, has not been adopted by many surgeons because of the concerns about postoperative recurrent ulcers, as well as by concerns about the technical...