This retrospective study examined the validity of the commonly used serum albumin level as an indicator of nutrition status of patients with pressure ulcer(s), particularly because the serum albumin level is affected by various factors and may not be specific to malnutrition. Specifically, we investigated whether nutrition supply or inflammation affects the serum albumin level in 82 patients wi...

Eighty two patients with an endoscopically healed gastric ulcer, were treated for two years with either Caved-S tablets, two twice daily or cimetidine 400 mg at night. During the first year, 12% (four out of 34) of the Caved-S group and 10% (four out of 41) of the cimetidine group had an ulcer recurrence. By the end of the second year, the recurrence rate was 29% (nine out of 31) in the Caved-S...

Falcaria vulgaris is a member of Umbelliferae family and is used for treatment of stomach disorders in the folk medicines of the west of Iran. This study was designed to evaluate the gastroprotective effect of F. vulgaris extract on ethanol (%50) induced gastric ulcers in rat. Thirty five young white male rats were divided to five groups (7rats/ group).Three case groups received plant extract (...

pressure ulcer frequency and risk factors based on norton scale at education and treatment centers in urmia university of medical sciences     baghaei r [1] *, salmani azar n [2] , khalkhali hr [3] , fereidooni j.     received: 1 dec , 2012 accepted: 19 feb , 2013     abstract   background & aims : pressure ulcer or bed sores are one of the major problems in medicine. understanding, prevention,...

introduction: mental stress is one of the most important causes of the gastric ulcer. on the other hand, flavonoids such as quercetin show protective effects. the aim of this study was to investigate possible protective effect of quercetin on water restraint stress-induced ulcer in rats. methods: adult male wistar rats were divided into seven groups each containing eight animals. the first grou...

One hundred patients with benign gastric ulceration were treated in a single-blind, endoscopically controlled trial to assess the relative efficacy of cimetidine (1 g daily) and Caved-S (six tablets daily). Ulcer healing was assessed after six weeks' treatment, and, if incomplete, after a further six weeks. There was no significant difference between the two drug regimens (approximately 63% at ...

patients. Two of these five had concurrent S. haematobium, compared to no cases in nonosteomyelitis patients; a Fisher exact test showed this difference to be significant (p < 0.02). These limited and preliminary data are consistent with the relationship between leprosy (caused by a mycobacterium related to the one causing Buruli ulcer, M. leprae) and concurrent helminth infections. The severit...

Figure 2 Histopathological examination showed inflammatory granulation tissue. Kinyoun stain revealed multiple acid-fast bacilli (arrows). Culture of tissue in L wenstein-Jensen media yielded Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Intestinal tuberculosis should form part of differential diagnosis of patients presenting with lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Figure 1 A 20-year-old man with a complaint of he...

Ma, L., W. P. Wang, J. Y. C. Chow, S. T. Yuen, and C. H. Cho. Reduction of EGF is associated with the delay of ulcer healing by cigarette smoking. Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 278: G10–G17, 2000.—Cigarette smoking is associated with peptic ulcer diseases. Smokers have lower levels of salivary epidermal growth factor (EGF) than nonsmokers. We investigated whether reduction of EGF...