-----------------------------DRUG INTERACTIONS--------------------------­ • Atazanavir: Do not co-administer with atazanavir. (7.1) • Drugs with pH-Dependent Absorption: May interfere with the absorption of drugs where gastric pH is important for bioavailability. (7.1) • Warfarin: Concomitant warfarin use may require monitoring for increases in INR and prothrombin time. (7.2) • Tacrolimus: Conc...

Jul 1, 2011 . The oral acid suppressors famotidine and omeprazole have been widely used. To facilitate dosing, the omeprazole paste was combined with . with H2RAs, such as ranitidine or famotidine, 30–60 minutes prior to a meal would be a standard dose omeprazole, pantoprazole, or lansoprazole in more. Feb 25, 2015 .

BACKGROUND Short-term therapies for eradicating Helicobacter pylori in selected patients might offer advantages in terms of costs, compliance, and adverse effects in contrast to standard 1-week triple therapy. METHODS To determine eradication success and influencing factors in a new short-term quadruple therapy, a total of 243 patients positive for H pylori were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 re...

causes of emergency hospital admission in Japan, and it possibly results in life-threatening massive hemorrhage. Endoscopic clipping of the bleeding vessel is usually effective for treating gastrointestinal hemorrhage, but rebleeding occurs in 15 to 20% of patients. Higher intragastric pH promotes platelet aggregation, and the inhibition of gastric acid secretion to maintain neutral pH may stab...

Patients with lupus erythematosus (LE) frequently require systemic corticosteroid therapy and some of them also take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for arthritis or aspirin for thrombosis prevention. However, these drugs, especially if taken concomitantly, may significantly increase the risk of peptic ulcer, and proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are currently considered as first line prophyl...

Aim. We designed this trial to find answers to the following questions. (1) Does the success rate decrease in a country where HP prevalence is high? (2) Can we provide benefit by simultaneously treating the partners of infected patients? Materials and Methods. The first group consisted of 102 HP-positive patients, and both the patients and their HP-positive partners were treated. The second gro...