Sving, E. 2014. Pressure Ulcer Prevention. Performance and Implementation in Hospital Settings. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1042. 73 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9073-7. Background: Pressure ulcers are related to reduced quality of life for patients and high costs for health care. Guidelines for pressure u...

The previous studies demonstrated the pivotal role of capsaicin-sensitive peptidergic sensory neurons and vagal nerves in the maintenance of gastric mucosal integrity. The aim of the present study was: 1). to examine the effect of the functional ablation of sensory neurons with neurotoxic dose of capsaicin and surgical vagotomy on the course of healing of gastric ulcer in rat, and 2). to compar...

background & aim: homalium letestui pellegr (flacourtiaceae) used traditionally by the ibibios of southern nigeria to treat stomach ulcer, malaria and other inflammatory diseases was evaluated for antiulcer properties.  experimental: the effects of ethanol stem extract of h. letestui (200 – 600 mg/kg) and fractions (aqueous and dichloromethane, 400 mg/kg) on experimentally induced ulcer wer...

Objective: The current study was conducted to compare the effect of 150,000 and 300,000 IU of vitamin D on the healing status of diabetic foot ulcer among the patients with diabetes. Materials and Methods: This randomized clinical trial was carried out on 47 patients with diabetic foot ulcer and vitamin deficiency during four weeks follow-up. The patients were randomly assigned into two groups...

Peptic ulcer is one of the most important and frequent gastrointestinal diseases in Japan similarly as in the foreign countries. Although the reports of statistics on peptic ulcer of pathologicanatomical and clinical materials and of mortality have been presented abundantly, there are but few which review widely the true and accurate features of peptic ulcer in Japan. Recently we had an opportu...

A 45-year-old male recipient of a renal allograft was admitted because of a giant oesophageal ulcer coinciding with leucopoenia. An extensive workup revealed no explanation for the ulcer and leucopoenia. Our final diagnosis by exclusion was an idiopathic giant oesophageal ulcer and late-onset neutropenia as consequences of rituximab induction therapy given during the transplant procedure. The p...

Anti ulcer activity of root, stem and leave of Murrya koenigii (Linn.) Spreng was studied against ethanol, hydrochloric acid, indomethacin, stress and pyloric ligation induced gastric ulceration in albino rats. Significant antiulcer activity was observed in root, stem as well as leave of MurryaKoenigii (Linn.) Spreng in all the gastric ulcer models studied. Maximum anti ulcer activity was found...

The gastritis associated with chronic gastric ulcer has been studied by means of biopsy specimens taken under vision through a fibreoptic gastroscope from four standard sites in the stomach. Observations have been made in patients with untreated gastric ulcer and also in patients after medical or surgical treatment of the ulcer. The gastritis is usually widespread in chronic peptic ulcer of the...