(1) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
(2) It is reported on a 38-year-old female patient who was treated for 18 days with 150 mg cordanum (talinolol) each and then fell ill with a dyspeptic clinical picture and signs of cholestase.
(3) Four patients had severe dyspeptic symptoms and four severe dyspepsia plus dumping.
(4) In remission he developed coeliac disease, controlled by dietary measures, but 26 months after the end of chemotherapy a severe dyspeptic syndrome appeared; endoscopy and barium meal suggested the presence of a gastric tumour, which was surgically removed and showed the histological features of a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, lympho-histiocytic type.
(5) Endoscopic studies, which have attempted to relate the presence of a lesion to dyspeptic symptoms have shown a poor correlation, indicating a high risk of perforation and bleeding without prior symptomatic warning.
(6) Gastric antral endoscopic pinch biopsies from a group of dyspeptic patients were analysed for acute and chronic inflammatory cell numbers in the lamina propria and surface epithelial layer using computer-linked graphic tablet planimetry, and independently graded for Campylobacter pylori (CP) infection using a visual scoring system with grade 1 assessed as patchy epithelial infection and grade 2 as a continuous layer of organisms on the mucosal surface extending into gastric pits.
(7) Gender, alcohol use, endoscopic appearance, dyspeptic symptoms, mucosal inflammation, and the presence of H. pylori had no consistent effect on prostaglandin content.
(8) However, on smoking a cigarette, appreciable increase in duodenogastric reflux was seen in nine out of the 13 normal volunteers and in seven out of the nine dyspeptic patients.
(9) The rate of emptying in the symptomatic groups was compared with that in 24 asymptomatic normal control subjects and 12 non-dyspeptic patients with gallbladder disease.
(10) It is conceivable that a rising number of very aged patients with dyspeptic symptoms will come to observation as a consequence of the increasing mean age of the population; however there is not yet a complete agreement to submit patients with extremely advanced age to an EGD.
(11) which are specific against antigenic determinants of the bacterial body, were determined in 183 non-ulcer dyspeptic children and adolescents, aged 7- to 20 years.
(12) Using a linear regression model, autonomic neuropathy, diarrhea and dyspeptic symptoms were the major parameters in predicting delayed gastric emptying.
(13) Along with typical signs of erythema, signs were found characteristic of yersiniosis, namely, mesadenitis, acute hepatitis, desquamative glossitis, changes in the ileocecal region, dyspeptic phenomena, tendency to a wave-like course.
(14) The difference was insignificant, as were the alterations in the individual dyspeptic symptoms between the groups.
(15) Similar, albeit generally milder, changes were found in 47 of 316 (15%) non-surgical patients undergoing endoscopy for dyspeptic symptoms.
(16) Thirteen major bands and about 30 minor bands could be identified by Western blotting when sera from 53 consecutive dyspeptic patients, 27 healthy children, and 25 blood donors were evaluated.
(17) Levels were also measured in non-dyspeptic patients with gallbladder disease and normal controls.
(18) The effect of chronic oral administration of cimetidine (1 g per day) and ranitidine (300 mg per day) on plasma levels of prolactin (PRL), testosterone, dihydrotestosterone (DHT), luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) and human growth hormone was compared in 2 groups of male patients who presented with dyspeptic symptoms.
(19) Apart from 3 patients who required surgery for gallstone complications, treatment was well tolerated, and both dyspeptic symptoms and frequency of biliary colic were reduced.
(20) Recurrence was predicted with a probability of about 75% in patients with dyspepsia, the proportion between recurrences and dyspeptic nonrecurrences being 1:1.
Peptic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
(a.) Able to digest.
(a.) Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.
(n.) An agent that promotes digestion.
(n.) The digestive organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Useful studies on the relationship between these acute lesions and peptic ulceration are rare.
(2) The pathomechanism, how C. pylori facilitates the development of peptic ulcer is since hypothetical.
(3) A prospective randomized trial involving 64 patients with bleeding peptic ulcers was performed to assess the efficacy of two modalities of injection therapy.
(4) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
(5) All of them had a history of nephrolithiasis and peptic ulcers.
(6) Pain relieved by antacids, age above 40 years, previous peptic ulcer disease, male sex, symptoms provoked by berries, and night pain relieved by antacids and food were found to predict organic dyspepsia with a sensitivity and specificity of approximately 70%, when applied on the observed material.
(7) Prostaglandin analogues, because of their oral effectiveness and duration of action, may have therapeutic value in peptic ulcer disease.
(8) Oral administration of PGE methyl analogues may be an effective mode of therapy in peptic ulcer disease.
(9) Results of medical therapy of reflux oesophagitis are disappointing, especially compared to the success obtained in peptic ulcer disease.
(10) Smoking, which predisposes to peptic ulceration, also appears to reduce mucosal prostaglandin synthesis.
(11) The family physician who sees many children with vague abdominal pain must include peptic ulcer disease in the differential diagnosis.
(12) The tumour produced insulin and gastrin with resulting hypoglycaemia and recurrent peptic ulceration which were unresponsive to other drugs.
(13) The results of 96 simultaneous operations for peptic ulcer are discussed.
(14) Important problems currently under study or requiring investigation for better understanding of the pathophysiology and management are reviewed under three major categories: acute peptic erosions and ulcers, gastric ulcer, and duodenal ulcer.
(15) Although uncommon in children peptic ulcers should be considered in patients with recurrent abdominal pain.
(16) Persistent reflux causing cycles of mucosal damage followed by healing may eventually lead to end-stage disease, with development of peptic stricture.
(17) Omeprazole 40 mg therefore was found to produce rapid healing and symptom relief in Asian patients with H2-antagonist-resistant peptic ulcers.
(18) Evidence is provided for the concept of enlarged spasms (phenomenon of the spastic dominant) common to peptic ulcer.
(19) Peptic ulcers were identified in 14 patients, mostly those with new dyspepsia, during the study period.
(20) The serum hCGLS levels in 54 patients with gastrointestinal cancer were significantly higher, when compared with the findings in 19 healthy volunteers and 10 peptic ulcer patients.