ALLMedicine™ Peptic Ulcer Disease Center

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...

Aug 31st, 2021 - Abstract Introduction: H. pylori selectively infects the human stomach mucosa, being the most prevalent chronic infection in the world. Its prevalence correlates with socioeconomic factors and it is higher in older individuals. H. pylori presence ...

Aug 9th, 2021 - 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...

May 4th, 2021 - The study described in this report will be approved by the ethics committee of Yonsei University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Between July 2012 and February 2013, 380 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria, 380 of whom were included in the...

Mar 9th, 2021 - Upper Gastrointestinal bleed is a common presentation in a medical emergency. Patients generally present with hematemesis, melena or in severe cases hematochezia. Incidence and etiology vary from region as well as the level of health care facility...

Feb 8th, 2021 - Perforated peptic ulcer (PPU) is a frequent emergency condition worldwide with associated mortality up to 30%. Open procedures have in the most part been replaced by laparoscopic techniques. The standard postoperative management of PPUD patients i...

Nov 1st, 2021 - Akash Goel, MD While this month’s journal scan for clinical research reviews in exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) may not reveal a landmark paper, there certainly are novel findings worthy of note. In particular researchers Halabitska and Ba.

Oct 13th, 2021 - A new study that looked at a large database of privately insured Americans has found that transgender individuals have a higher risk of chronic disease than their cisgender counterparts. Transgender people had higher rates of cardiovascular, neuro...

Oct 12th, 2021 - A study that compared three types of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) found that rivaroxaban was associated with a much higher risk of overall and major gastrointestinal bleeding than apixaban or dabigatran. The results, which were published in ...

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...