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...

A 55-year-old man visited our department because of epigastric pain. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a small, undermined ulcer in the gastric cardia. He had no history of taking NSAIDs, and was positive for Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection. After Hp eradication therapy followed by 8 weeks of proton pump inhibitor (PPI) administration, re-endoscopy showed that the ulcer had slightly ...

Sarcoidosis--a chronic, multisystem disease of unknown etiology characterized by noncaseating granulomas--may cause ulcerative lesions, particularly in African American women. A case of ulcerative sarcoidosis mimicking a venous ulcer is presented. The patient is a 44-year-old African American hypertensive, obese woman with a nonhealing medially based lower leg ulcer of 3 years' duration clinica...

OBJECTIVE To study if the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in patients with venous leg ulcer is higher than in the control population. METHODS Serum levels of 25 hidroxi (OH)-vitamin D3 was studied by chemiluminescence in 27 patients with chronic venous ulcer and 58 controls at the Evangelical Hospital of Curitiba. RESULTS The levels of 25 OH-vitamin D3 were below 8 ng/dl in 11.1% of ulce...

A survey of recurrent indigestion in four general practices (19,619 patients) showed a wide range of dyspeptic complaints. Of these 82 (4.2 per 1,000) already had a proved ulcer and 144 (7.3 per 1,000) had symptoms suggesting a duodenal ulcer and had either not been investigated or had previously had a normal barium meal. A duodenal ulcer was found radiologically in half the men (46 out of 95) ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prognostic factors in uncomplicated venous leg ulcer healing. DESIGN Randomised parallel group controlled trial with subjects stratified by initial ulcer diameter and four months' maximum duration of follow up. SETTING Assessment at Northwick Park Hospital vascular unit with community based treatment. PATIENTS 200 patients with clinical and objective evidence of ...

AIM To investigate the correlation among the presence and degree of gastric metaplasia of duodenal regenerating mucosa, the deformity of bulb and the recurrence of duodenal ulcer. METHODS A total of 99 patients with duodenal ulcer were treated with H(2)-antagonist with or without antimicrobial therapy. All patients received follow-up endoscopic examinations 6 wk after treatment. When the ulce...

INTRODUCTION The past decade has witnessed a global rise in the prevalence of peptic ulcer disease which is unrelated to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or Helicobacter pylori infection. Although initially recognized in the West, this disease is being increasingly recognized in the Asian population. The higher risk of bleeding and ulcer recurrence in this subgroup of patients hig...

peptic ulcer is a very common disorder in horse race and foals. in the present research possible relationship between gastric ulcer and the prevalence of cardiac arrhythmia were studied in two different horse race. in this respect, 13 caspian miniature horses and 8 arab horses were studied. gastric ulcers and cardiac arrhythmias were diagnosed in 13 horses (62%) and 12 (57%) out of 211 horses, ...

disease agents that principally target the tongue are relatively rare. it seems that type of food and roughage play an important role to predispose the animals to lingual ulcers. during a period of four years different aspects of cattle lingual fossa ulcer were studied in a semi-industrial dairy farm in tehran. the affected animals showed various stages of ulcer formation in their lingual fossa...