ALLMedicine™ Peptic Ulcer Disease Center

Aug 7th, 2021 - Helicobacter pylori infects approximately 50% of individuals worldwide. Successful H pylori eradication is associated with reduced risk of gastric cancer and peptic ulcer disease, among other conditions. We hypothesized that host genetic determina...

Jul 15th, 2021 - Over-the-counter analgesic medications are widely used amongst American adults and are also available in powder forms. Their adverse effects have been well documented in literature. Gastrocolic fistulas as a complication of peptic ulcer disease fr...

Jul 13th, 2021 - Emergency general surgery (EGS) conditions are increasingly common among nursing home residents. While such patients have a high risk of in-hospital mortality, long-term outcomes in this group are not well described, which may have implications fo...

Jul 11th, 2021 - Helicobacter pylori infection could cause chronic inflammation in the stomach and induce peptic ulcer disease or even malignant tumour. The initial infection of the organism happens in childhood but most of cases are latent. We had a case of 10-ye...

Jun 30th, 2021 - Peptic ulcer disease: an unusual presentation of a common problem.|2021|Tsoi AH,Garg M,Tsoi EH,|

Jan 11th, 2020 - Peptic ulcer disease is common with a lifetime prevalence in the general population of 5-10% and an incidence of 0.1-0.3% per year. Despite a sharp reduction in incidence and rates of hospital admission and mortality over the past 30 years, compli...

Jan 11th, 2017 - Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is a common worldwide infection that is an important cause of peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. H. pylori may also have a role in uninvestigated and functional dyspepsia, ulcer risk in patients taki...

Feb 18th, 2016 - The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE) revised the evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for peptic ulcer disease in 2014 and has created an English version. The revised guidelines consist of seven items: bleeding gastric and duoden...

Jul 12th, 2021 - A network meta-analysis of current first-line dual, triple, and quadruple therapies for Helicobacter pylori infection found that vonoprazan triple therapy was most effective, while standard triple therapy of a proton pump inhibitor (PPI), amoxicil...

Jun 28th, 2021 - Headache specialists face many challenges and difficult decisions in the treatment of acute migraine. They must first accurately distinguish acute migraine from migraine mimics such as thunderclap headaches or a COVID-19 headache without fever. Ac...

May 17th, 2021 - Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative microaerophilic bacterium that infects the epithelial lining of the stomach. It is the chief cause of chronic gastritis and the primary etiological agent for gastric cancer and peptic ulcer disease (PUD). Des...

Feb 27th, 2020 - People with true Bell palsy generally have an excellent prognosis, and spontaneous recovery is fairly common, so treatment of Bell palsy is still controversial. The goals of treatment are to improve facial nerve (seventh cranial nerve) function an...

Aug 2nd, 2019 - Most patients in the trial (78%) were male, and 23% were current smokers. Smaller proportions of the population were taking an NSAID (5%) and/or had a history of peptic ulcer disease (2.