Tobacco smoking delays healing of gastric ulcer and may influence duodenal ulceration. Seventy men, all cigarette smokers, were found to have duodenal ulceration at endoscopy. All were advised to stop smoking and received a three-month course of cimetidine. Endoscopy was repeated at three months (n = 63) and at six months (n = 56). At three months most (79%) patients showed ulcer healing and th...

The subsequent progress of 152 patients treated medically in the Nottingham hospitals for bleeding gastric ulceration was analysed four to eight years later by the use of life tables. The overall cumulative rate of ulcer haemorrhage, perforation or related death was found to be 19%. Women had a greater rate than men (women 21%, men 14%) but this difference was not statistically significant. The...

Persian oak (Quercus brantii Lindl., the Fagaceae family) is a medicinal plant which seed flour is used to treat inflammatory and gastric ulcers by the tribes in southwestern Iran. The current study was done to evaluate the effect of hydro-alcoholic extract of Q. brantii seed flour for treatment of gastric ulcers induced by ethanol in Wistar rats. The hydro-alcoholic extract of Q. brantii was t...

Glycyrrhiza glabra L. is used in folk medicine for treatment of stomach disorders includingpeptic ulcers. The hydroalcoholic extract of Glycyrrhiza glabra L. (HEGG) was evaluated forantiulcerogenic activity and acute toxicity profile in mice. Various doses of HEGG (50-200mg/kg) were administered orally to animals of different groups. Omeprazole and cimetidine atdoses of 30 and 100 mg/kg were us...

Persian oak (Quercus brantii Lindl., the Fagaceae family) is a medicinal plant which seed flour is used to treat inflammatory and gastric ulcers by the tribes in southwestern Iran. The current study was done to evaluate the effect of hydro-alcoholic extract of Q. brantii seed flour for treatment of gastric ulcers induced by ethanol in Wistar rats. The hydro-alcoholic extract of Q. brantii was t...

Alimentary tract duplications are uncommon congenital anomalies. Although most are symptomatic by the age of 2 years, some remain asymptomatic until adulthood. In one third of all cases, heterotopic gastric mucosa lines the wall of dupli­ cation, and may cause peptic ulceration, gastrointestinal bleed­ ing, fistulization or perforation. We report in this paper, a case of jejunoileal duplication...

Fasting serum pyridoxal was assayed by an automated microbiological system in 60 patients investigated for dyspepsia, patients with active peptic ulceration being excluded from the study. Gastritis was present in 30 patients, gastric carcinoma in 16, six patients had benign polyps, and, in eight patients, radiology, endoscopy, and biopsy failed to shown any abnormality. Of the 52 patients with ...