ALLMedicine™ Peptic Ulcer Disease Center

Aug 12th, 2022 - Gastric IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) can mimic malignancy, submucosal tumors (SMT), and ulcers, leading to over-triage and unnecessary medical interventions such as gastrectomy. The variability in the clinicopathological presentation of IgG4-rel...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) in children is an uncommon disorder. An estimated 1.3 percent to 20 percent of people die from perforated peptic ulcers (PPU), a PUD consequence. Using a database, we assess the prevalence and prognosis of PPU in patient...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) affects four million people worldwide annually and has an estimated lifetime prevalence of 5-10% in the general population. Worldwide, there are significant heterogeneities in coping approaches of healthcare systems with...

Jul 30th, 2022 - Hospitalization is the primary driver of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-related healthcare costs and morbidity. Traditional prediction models have poor performance at identifying patients at highest risk of unplanned healthcare utilization. Iden...

Jul 25th, 2022 - Background Upper-bowel perforation can be described as either free or contained. Free perforation occurs when bowel contents spill freely into the abdominal cavity, causing diffuse peritonitis (eg, duodenal or gastric perforation). Contained perfo...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Epigastric pain can have multiple etiologies including myocardial infarction, pancreatitis, acute aortic syndromes, gastroesophageal reflux disease, esophagitis, peptic ulcer disease, gastritis, duodenal ulcer disease, gastric cancer, and hiatal h...

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 20th, 2022 - Dyspepsia affects about 20% of the population globally and represents one of the commonest reasons for patients to seek medical consultation.1-3 The definition of dyspepsia has evolved over time and generally encompasses a variety of upper gastroi...

Jun 29th, 2022 - Following consent, patients will be assigned a unique study identification number (ID). A master list linking patient ID to patient name and medical record number will be maintained on a password protected and encrypted departmental server locatio...

Jun 7th, 2022 - Gastric cancer is the fifth most common malignancy in the world after cancers of the lung, breast, colorectum, and prostate. Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death and is responsible for 723,000 deaths yearly [1]. Gastric carcin...

Jun 1st, 2022 - The prime discovery of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) in chronic gastritis patients by Marshall and Warren in 1982 has geared a frenetic pace in H. pylori research. H. pylori is a helix-shaped microaerophilic gram negative bacterium colonising ga...

May 12th, 2022 - Helicobacter pylori infection is a well-established risk factor for peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. It's now a consensus of experts that H.pylori infection should be treated once it is recognized. Extended proton pump inhibitor (PPI)-base...

Jul 25th, 2022 - The same genes that send people to the bathroom with an irritable bowel syndrome flare-up may be involved in future brain health, according to a new study. Researchers have found a genetic correlation between individuals with gastrointestinal trac...

Jul 13th, 2022 - My edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, the one with the azure blue cover, the source of lectures and exam questions during my third year clerkship in 1976, didn't have a chapter on AIDS. There was no AIDS. It did discuss pneumoe...

Jun 30th, 2022 - This article originally appeared on MDedge.com. The following highlights are a brief overview of guideline updates, drug approvals, and diagnostics relevant to geriatric medicine from June 2021 to April 2022, some of which were discussed at the Am...

Jun 20th, 2022 - The following highlights are a brief overview of guideline updates, drug approvals, and diagnostics relevant to geriatric medicine from June 2021 to April 2022, some of which were discussed at the American Geriatrics Society conference in May. I s.

Jun 15th, 2022 - New users of low-dose aspirin — but not "prevalent" users — have a significantly increased risk of developing gastric and duodenal ulcers, a finding that highlights the importance of weighing the risks and benefits of starting low-dose aspirin the...