A high proportion (40%) of patients with definite myocardial ischaemia who were questioned on admission to a Cardiac Monitoring Unit had experienced preceding chest pain which had been misinterpreted by both the patients themselves and doctors as 'indigestion' and which had often been inappropriately treated. 'Indigestion' in the chest in previously non-dyspeptic subjects over 40 years of age s...

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Campylobacter pylorn is strongly associated with histologically confirmed gastritis.1 The most convincing evidence for a pathogenic role of C pylori in gastritis comes from trials of treatment." We investigated the role of C pylorn in dyspeptic patients who had gastritis confirmed by histology by performing a prospective trial with colloidal bismuth subcitrate 240 mg twice daily for four weeks....

Uninvestigated dyspepsia refers to patients with new or recurrent dyspeptic symptoms in whom no investigations have previously been undertaken. These patients are much more likely to present in primary than in secondary care. It is particularly important to be able to offer effective symptom relief to support the explanation, reassurance, and advice provided to patients, and low dose or standar...

A 61-year-old male was admitted to Başkent University Hospital with right shoulder pain, weight loss, and dyspeptic symptoms. His chest roentgenogram showed a mass-like shadow of about 7 cm in diameter in the right upper lung area (Fig. 1). Subsequent computed tomograph (CT) revealed a large tumor with multiple metastases spread in the lung paranchimal tissue but no metastases in the mediastina...