The endoscope transmits an image of the esophagus, stomach and duodenum to a monitor that your physician is watching. Biopsy forceps will be inserted into the endoscope to remove a tissue sample. An ...

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Ulcer pain comes when the sore area of the stomach lining gets exposed to stomach acid. Here's what you need to know.

To advocate nonoperative treatment for certain cases of perforated peptic ulcer is not new. The first report of the successful management of such a case was that of T. Hall Redwood, who in 1870 10 ...

Specialists in the digestive system and its disorders have dismissed the widely held belief that skipping meals causes ulcers, describing it as a common misconception that continues to mislead many ...

If you have a peptic ulcer, you’ll usually experience some degree of abdominal pain. This pain can range from mild to severe and tends to come and go. Some people describe this pain as dull ...

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Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology Peptic Ulcer Disease Today Yuhong Yuan; Ireneusz T Padol; Richard H Hunt Disclosures Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;3 (2):80-89. 0 ...

Chief cause of peptic ulcers, which afflict about 330,000 U. S. citizens (mostly business and professional men), is oversecretion of harsh gastric juice. Gastric juice, when abnormally acid, erodes ...

Peptic ulcer disease afflicts several million people in the USA every year. Read this clinical update to learn about the current challenges in the treatment of acid-mediated diseases.