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Pepsin 1, the ulcer-associated pepsin, occurred significantly more frequently in the gastric juice of those patients with duodenal ulcer who did not secrete A, B, or H antigens into gastric juice than in those secreting these antigens. This observation may explain the increased proportion of such non-secretors among patients with duodenal ulceration. In patients with gastric ulcer and non-ulcer dyspepsia, and in a miscellaneous group of patients, there was no association of pepsin 1 secretion with secretor status, suggesting that the association noted in duodenal ulceration is an indirect rather than a direct one. No increase of pepsin 1 occurred in group O patients with peptic ulcer, so that the increased proportion of such patients in peptic ulcer does not arise from differences in pepsin 1 secretion.
J Med Genet 1979 Dec
PMID:Hereditary aspects of duodenal ulceration: pepsin 1 secretion in relation to ABO blood groups and ABH secretor status. 11 57

A review has been made of the hospital case notes of 32 patients with indomethacin-associated peptic ulceration seen over a four year period in Dunedin. Ulceration attributed to indomethacin therapy was found to particularly involve elderly women, in contrast to a predominance of males and a younger mean age at diagnosis in non-drug associated ulceration seen over the same period. The indomethacin-associated ulcer patients were more frequently complicated by haematemesis or melaena (two-thirds of cases compared to one-quarter for the group not on drugs) and relative hypochlorhydria was frequently noted at the time of gastroscopy in this group as compared to the other cases. It is suggested that patients warranting prolonged treatment with indomethacin require regular reassessment for any evidence of dyspepsia or anaemia, and that barium meal or gastroscopy are indicated for the presence of even mild abnormality of these types.
N Z Med J 1978 Dec 13
PMID:Indomethacin-associated peptic ulceration. 28 38

Since 1946, 20 men and one woman aged 40 to 76 years (average 57) were operated upon for complications of diospyrobezoars. Shortly after eating persimmons, 11 (52.4%) had severe abdominal cramping, anusea, vomiting, and pyrexia. Twelve of 17 (70.9%) with gastric bezoars had hematemesis or melena caused by an associated gastric ulcer, while five (29.1%) had only moderate dyspepsia. In four (19.1%), the bezoar had lodged in the ileum, causing obstruction. Enzymatic therapy is indicated in those with minor symptoms. Gastrotomy or gastrotomy with bezoar removal and wedge resection of the gastric ulcer is recommended when enzymatic therapy fails, or when there is gastric outlet obstruction or marrise hemorrhage. Emergency exploration with removal is necessary when the persimmon bezoar causes ileal obstruction.
South Med J 1979 Dec
PMID:Management of persimmon bezoars (diospyrobezoars). 51 61

Seven patients with hyperlipoproteinemia (HLP) type II (four patients with type II A and three patients with type II B), who were experienced to be resistant to hypolipidemic drugs, were treated for 6 months with etofibrate, a double-ester of nicotinic acid and clofibrinic acid, at a dose of 0.3 g t.i.d. Mean serum cholesterol level decreased by up to 18% from a pre-treatment value of 7.7 +/- 1.4 mmol/l. The reduction of serum cholesterol was due both to a decrease in very low density (VLDL) and low density (LDL) lipoprotein cholesteral by 61 and 25%, respectively (after 6 months). Furthermore alpha-LP (HDL) cholesterol increased by 8%, (after 6 months). All seven patients had previously received clofibrate and had obtained a mean decrease in plasma cholesterol by 6%. There was a slight transient increase in S-ASAT and S-ALAT simultaneous with in increase in serum urate. However, these values returned after 3 months to pre-treatment level. No influence on glucose tolerance was recorded. There were no bothersome side effects except a transient discomfort in the form of flushing or acid indigestion which occurred after 1--2 months of treatment with etofibrate.
Int J Clin Pharmacol Biopharm 1979 Dec
PMID:Treatment of hyperlipoproteinemia type II with etofibrate. 52 96

Sixteen younger men who presented with frequency, hesitancy and poor stream have been examined by clinical, urodynamic and endoscopic means. These urological symptoms have been found to be associated locally with a poor detrusor action and generally with a high incidence of dyspepsia and anxiety disorder. It is suggested that an initiating factor may be common to all 3 systems and hence a general rather than a local solution should be sought.
Br J Urol 1979 Dec
PMID:Hesitancy and poor stream in younger men without outflow tract obstruction--the anxious bladder. 53 33

Eighty-three patients who had been investigated by cholecystogram, barium meal and fibreoptic endoscopy more than two years previously were interviewed to enquire into their reactions to the investigations carried out, their present symptoms, and their present smoking and alcohol consumption. Comparisons were made with previously recorded observations. Those who still complained of severe dyspepsia were asked to attend for a repeat endoscopy. Sixty-three per cent of patients were asymptomatic; 13 per cent had recurrent dyspepsia, and 24 per cent had persistent dyspepsia. Thirty-nine per cent of smokers were found to have stopped altogether following medical advice.Both radiological and endoscopic methods of investigation proved acceptable. A majority of patients preferred endoscopy to barium meal.
J R Coll Gen Pract 1978 Dec
PMID:A follow-up survey of patients with dyspepsia in one general practice. 55 78

Gastrointestinal symptoms are common in acute falciparum malaria. Dyspepsia often occurs in such patients and sometimes it is exceptionally severe. However, the pathogenesis of the dyspeptic symptoms in malaria has not been clearly defined. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed in 40 patients with acute falciparum malaria in order to correlate the dyspeptic symptoms with the macroscopic (endoscopic) and microscopic (histologic) pathology of stomach and duodenum. The patients were divided into a dyspeptic group (n = 20, male/female ratio = 17/3, age range 18-50 years, mean age = 28.85 + 9.14 years), and a non-dyspeptic group (n = 20, male/female ratio = 16/4, age range 15-47, mean age 26.05 + 9.98 years). The findings revealed that dyspepsia correlated with topographic endoscopic pangastritis (p = 0.0014), the category of endoscopic antral gastritis (p = 0.013), and the histologic severity of antral gastritis (p = 0.0434). The results suggested that gastritis should be considered in acute falciparum malaria patients presenting with dyspepsia.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 1992 Dec
PMID:Dyspepsia in acute falciparum malaria: a clinico-pathological correlation. 129 91

The prevalence and the serum levels of IgG antibody to Herpes simplex virus type 1 or 2 (HSV1, HSV2) and to cytomegalovirus (CMV) were studied by ELISA in patients with active peptic ulcer -- duodenal and gastric -- and non-ulcer dyspepsia. Two hundred and forty-two consecutive patients with endoscopically confirmed active peptide ulcer -- 170 duodenal ulcers, 72 gastric ulcers -- and 95 consecutive patients who fulfilled the criteria for the diagnosis of non-ulcer dyspepsia were included in the study. The patients, aged 17-80 years, were well matched for age and sex. Antibody to cytomegalovirus was found in 83% of duodenal ulcer, 85% of gastric ulcer and 75% of non-ulcer dyspepsia patients; differences were not significant. The prevalence of HSV1 antibody was significantly higher in patients with duodenal ulcer than in those with non-ulcer dyspepsia (p < 0.025); the prevalence of HSV2 antibody was significantly higher in patients with duodenal or gastric ulcer, than in those with non-ulcer dyspepsia (p < 0.05, p < 0.01, respectively); however, antibody levels (mean optical density) to the viruses studied were similar for all groups of patients. These results provide some evidence that HSV might be implicated in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease.
Hepatogastroenterology 1992 Dec
PMID:Herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 and cytomegalovirus in peptic ulcer disease and non-ulcer dyspepsia. 133 74

Ninety-three consecutive patients referred to a gastroenterology unit with unexplained dyspeptic symptoms were sent a postal questionnaire 6-12 months after endoscopy. It inquired into their current physical symptoms and subjective improvement since investigation, satisfaction with treatment, past history and current psychological well-being. A comparison group of 47 patients with peptic disease were similarly surveyed. Those with unexplained dyspepsia reported more current physical symptoms, more dissatisfaction with their treatment and less subjective improvement than those with peptic disease. The two groups were similar in terms of psychological distress but previous consultation for abdominal and other somatic complaints were more common in those with unexplained dyspepsia. The implications for management of dyspeptic patients are discussed.
J Psychosom Res 1992 Dec
PMID:The outcome of unexplained dyspepsia. A questionnaire follow-up study of patients after endoscopy. 143 65

Two urease-based tests--the urease slide test and the radiolabeled urea breath test, are commonly used for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection of the stomach. The reliability of these tests in chronic uremia was compared with serological tests for H pylori antibodies, and with direct detection of the organism by microscopy or culture of gastric antral biopsies. Twenty-seven patients with chronic renal failure and dyspepsia underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Twelve of these patients (46%) were judged to be infected with H pylori on the basis of identification of the organism on microscopy or culture of antral biopsy. Both urease-based tests were able to determine H pylori status, despite the markedly increased concentrations of urea in the gastric juice found in chronic renal failure. The urease slide test performed on antral biopsies obtained at endoscopy proved reliable in determining H pylori status with no false-positive nor false-negative results after 20 minutes and 24 hours of incubation. The 14C-urea breath test also differentiated the infected from the uninfected patients. The 20-minute 14CO2 excretion (kg %dose/mmol CO2 x 100) ranged from 50 to 834 in the H pylori-infected patients, compared with 0.3 to 27 in the H pylori-noninfected patients (P < 0.0001); the 90-minute values ranged from 88 to 398 in the former, compared with 1 to 79 in the latter (P < 0.0001). The excretion of 14CO2 (derived from bacterial hydrolysis of ingested 14C-urea) was higher in all the uremic patients compared with nonuremic controls, and in half of the H pylori-noninfected uremic patients there was a late increase in 14CO2 excretion.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Am J Kidney Dis 1992 Dec
PMID:The diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection in uremic patients. 146 85


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