Department of Internal Medicine, Cathay General Hospital; Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital; and Department of Pathology, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei. Received: 16 January 2002. Revised: 4 February 2002. Accepted: 5 March 2002. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Dr. Yung-Chih Lai, Department of Internal Medicine, Cathay General Hospital, 280 Jen-Ai Ro...

Anastomotic ulceration following the surgical treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers is more dangerous and troublesome and often more difficult to diagnose than the original lesion. Even in experienced hands it is more difficult to treat successfully both medically and surgically than either duodenal or gastric ulcer. Difficulties in diagnosis, the incidence of complications, and the problems...

Anastomotic ulceration following the surgical treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers is more dangerous and troublesome and often more difficult to diagnose than the original lesion. Even in experienced hands it is more difficult to treat successfully both medically and surgically than either duodenal or gastric ulcer. Difficulties in diagnosis, the incidence of complications, and the problems...

Anastomotic ulceration following the surgical treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers is more dangerous and troublesome and often more difficult to diagnose than the original lesion. Even in experienced hands it is more difficult to treat successfully both medically and surgically than either duodenal or gastric ulcer. Difficulties in diagnosis, the incidence of complications, and the problems...

clinic because of gastric malignancy found on a periodic medical check−up. He had no specific symptoms or signs. Physical examination and routine labora− tory studies were normal. Esophagogas− troduodenoscopy revealed early gastric cancer (EGC) in the antrum, and there was an additional reddish ulcer scar with fold convergence in the anterior wall of the duodenal bulb. Unlike typical ulcer scar...

Eighty patients with duodenal ulcer were randomly allocated to treatment with tripotassium dicitrato bismuthate (TDB) tablets or cimetidine. Ulcers healed in 78% of patients treated with TDB and in 74% treated with cimetidine, supporting previous observations that the efficacy of these two agents is similar. Duodenal ulcer recurred in 43% of patients in the 12 months after treatment with TDB an...

• Objective: To determine whether dissemination of inpatient practice guidelines for Helicobacter pylori management improves the testing and treatment rates of patients admitted with acute upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding from gastric or duodenal ulcers. • Design: Prospective, non-randomized, interventional

Gastric juice cultures were positive in all patients with gastric disorders and 44% with duodenal ulcers. A positive correlation was observed between pH and positivity of gastric cultures (JPMA 32:282, 1982).

A case of the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, presented with watery diarrhoea, malabsorption and multiple duodenal ulcers. Resection of a gastrinoma from the head of the pancreas was ineffective. Cimetidine, administered for more than 30 months produced an immediate and sustained relief of symptoms with a gain in weight of 19 kg and improvement of the biochemical features of malabsorption. Gastric ...

We retrospectively analyzed all patients presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding to Seremban Hospital over a one-year period. A quarter of the oesophagogastro-duodenoscopies (OGD) performed were performed as emergency for upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding. Gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers were the two most common findings. Our results suggest that there is a male preponderance of ...