Take all doses of your antibiotics exactly as your doctor prescribes, even if the pain from a peptic ulcer is gone. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Drug treatment of peptic ulcer disease open access ebooks. Pdf guidelines of treatment for peptic ulcer disease in special. The most common symptom is a burning pain in your stomach. The ultimate judgment regarding any specific clinical procedure or treatment must be made by the physician in light of the circumstances presented by the patient. Antibiotics can cure most peptic ulcers caused by h. They also can cause bloating, nausea, vomiting, and other. Peptic ulcers that dont heal with treatment are called refractory ulcers. Pdf evidencebased treatment of peptic ulcer disease. Decreased mucosal defense against gastric acid is another cause. To decrease the recurrence rate and to prevent overuse of antacids etiology.
Evidencebased treatment of peptic ulcer disease article pdf available in taehan uihak hyophoe chi. Gitu, md, florida state university college of medicine family medicine. The most common remedy is a combination of antibiotic drugs to kill the h. Introduction to gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. Ulcers are caused by an infection of a bacterium known as helicobacter pylori or h. If you have a burning pain in your stomach that keeps coming back, a peptic ulcer is one possible reason for it. An esophageal ulcer occurs in the lower part of your esophagus. To provide patient with high quality treatment meeting uptodate standards of care 2. These might include proton pump inhibitors like aciphex or nexium, h2 blockers like pepcid, tagamet, or zantac, or other antacids. Ulcerations in the git involve mucosal erosions of more than 0. Treatment of peptic ulcer disease american international health. Peptic ulcer disease differs from gastritis and erosions in those ulcers typically extend deeper into the muscularis mucosa. Lack of response to conventional treatment for peptic ulcer disease should suggest conditions other than benign peptic ulcers, and should warrant endoscopy or. Guidelines of treatment for peptic ulcer disease in special conditions article pdf available in the korean journal of gastroenterology taehan sohwagi hakhoe chi 545.
Pdf the pathogenesis, incidence, complication rates, response to acid suppression and helicobacter pylori h. Pdf about treatment of peptic ulcer using novel methods find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. A peptic ulcer is a sore in the lining of your stomach or the top part of your small intestine. Peptic ulcer can occur in various parts of the gastrointestinal tract. Ask your doctor whether you should undergo followup tests after your treatment. Thats a sore on the inside of your stomach or at the upper portion, or beginning. If an ulcer is detected during endoscopy, your doctor may recommend another endoscopy after your treatment to make sure your ulcer has healed. A peptic ulcer in the stomach is called a gastric ulcer. Peptic ulcer disease usually occurs in the stomach and proximal duodenum. Peptic ulcer disease or simply peptic ulcer is the presence of ulcerations in the gastrointestinal tract, which is characterized by being acidic and extremely painful. The most common causes of peptic ulcer disease pud are helicobacter pylori infection and use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs nsaids.
Successful eradication reduces pud recurrence rate from 90% to peptic ulcer protocol implementation goal. Peptic ulcer disease symptoms, treatment, pathophysiology. Peptic ulcers are painful sores in the lining of the stomach, esophagus, or small intestine. Eradication of hp infection alters the natural history of peptic ulcer disease.