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...

Pressure ulcers frequently occur in patients with limited mobility, for example, people with advanced age and patients wearing casts or prostheses. Mobile information communication technologies can help implement ulcer care protocols and the monitoring of patients with high risk, thus preventing or improving these conditions. This article presents a mobile pressure ulcer monitoring platform (mU...

The aim of this article is to promote and encourage ulcer care at the lowest possible level, as near to the patient' s home as possible, and to stimulate paramedical workers and physicians in peripheral units to take responsibility for such treatment. Traditionally surgeons, often working full time in leprosy institutions, in vertical leprosy programmes have given ulcer care. As integration pro...

In order to investigate further the reported beneficial effect of deglycyrrhizinated liquorice in gastric ulcer, a trial with a double-blind, cross-over design was performed. The patients were treated during two consecutive periods of four weeks each with either liquorice extract during the first period and placebo during the second or placebo during the first period and liquorice during the se...

INTRODUCTION Shigella flexneri is a Gram-negative bacteria that has the ability to invade the epithelium of the colon and cause colon ulcers. METHODOLOGY The ability of isolated Shigella flexneri from bloody diarrhea to cause colon ulcers was investigated by histopathological examination via oral administration of the bacteria to adult male albino Sprague-Dawley rats. The antibacterial activi...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the virulence potential of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from diabetic foot ulcers and to discriminate noninfected from infected ulcers. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Diabetic patients hospitalized in a diabetic foot department with a foot ulcer were prospectively enrolled if they had been free of antibiotic treatment over the previous ...

Background/Aims The ability of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) to resect large early gastric cancers (EGCs) results in the need to treat large artificial gastric ulcers. This study assessed whether the combination therapy of rebamipide plus a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) offered benefits over PPI monotherapy. Methods In this prospective, randomized, multicenter, open-label, and comparat...

The purpose of the study was to analyze various psychosocial characteristics and examine their association with severity ulcers in adolescents chronic peptic ulcer. A cross-sectional descriptive study, using interview questionnaires psychological tests conducted 214 diagnosed ulcer at 03 central hospitals Hanoi. results showed that often had neurotic personality traits (83.1%), a habit staying ...

Abstract Background Sepia officinalis ink is a bioactive secondary metabolite rich in melanin granules, which has wide range of nutritional and therapeutic values also been used to prevent various gastrointestinal disorders. Gastric ulcer, the most common disease, characterized by severe gastric mucosa damage, its prevention currently one main goals clinical experimental studies. Thus, present ...