Acid inhibition and peptic ulcer bleeding.
Dig Dis
; 29(5): 494-8, 2011.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22095017
ABSTRACT
Peptic ulcer bleeding is one of the most common emergency situations in medicine. Combined pharmacological and endoscopic therapy together with emerging interventional radiological procedures are successfully treating peptic ulcer disease, reserving surgical procedures for only a small portion of patients unresponsive to 'conventional' therapy. Technological advancement has seen a great improvement in the field of endoscopic treatment in the form of various methods of hemostasis. However, pharmacological therapy with proton pump inhibitors still plays the central role in the peptic ulcer bleeding treatment algorithm.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage
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Proton Pump Inhibitors
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Gastric Acid
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Dig Dis
Journal subject:
GASTROENTEROLOGIA
Year:
2011
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Croatia