peptic ulcer

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It is a noteworthy paradox that in our medical lifetime pepticulcer disease has been shown to be an infectious disease.
Gastro-enterologists will be surprised to read that pepticulcer is ' that classic psychosomatic symptom ' (p. 297).
Screening rates in the elderly with pepticulcer disease have been shown to be as low as 60% with subsequent treatment rates even lower.
The challenge in primary care is that the majority of patients presenting with dyspepsia have functional dyspepsia rather than pepticulcer disease (35;38;87).
The development of pepticulcer disease depends upon the balance between proulcer factors and the natural defence mechanisms.
As for age, it is reasonable to say that older people are more subject to pepticulcer or gastric cancer than young people.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories must be used with care in the elderly, particularly those with a history of pepticulcer disease.
Pepticulcer and diabetes mellitus are beginning to take shape, and there is barely a disease which has not been tested, and not discussed in these pages.
Upper endoscopy is the preferred diagnostic procedure for detecting pepticulcer and is done in hospitals.
Based on your symptoms, there is a 20% chance that you have an ulcer (pepticulcer disease) and an 80% chance that your symptoms are due to some other cause.
A number of published clinical studies have demonstrated the value of deglycyrrhizinized liquorice preparations in the management of pepticulcer.
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