In the past, surgery was dome for peptic ulcers. This has been replaced with adequate medical therapy. Surgery may be necessary if serious complications develop. In the case of a bleeding ulcer, the ...

According to medical statistics, some 12 million Americans have, or have had, ulcers of the stomach or duodenum. Every day, ulcers claim 4,000 new victims; every year, surgeons put about 150,000 ulcer ...

SO MUCH has been said and written on the subject of peptic ulcer that one could not unreasonably ask why we are presenting a discussion of the subject to this audience. Our reasons for doing so are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Endoscopic therapy yielded lower rates of rebleeding, mortality and surgery compared with ...

William R. Sebra, a 48-year-old Aberdeen man, suffered from a peptic ulcer that would not respond to medicine and a diseased gall bladder that would make him violently ill if he ate his favorite dish ...

People planning to undergo weight loss surgery (search) may benefit from being screened and treated for a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori (search), say experts at Emory University. H. pylori is ...

Peptic-ulcer surgery can increase a patient's risk of pancreatic cancer many years later, Dutch scientists say. A University of Amsterdam study in The Journal of Clinical Pathology found the chances ...

A new research suggests that the patients who undergo surgery to remove their ulcers may be at increased risk of later developing pancreatic cancer. The investigators base their findings on an ...

'An ulcer is an open sore or lesion, usually found on the skin or mucous membrane areas of the body' A resident asks: Doctor, I am suffering from duodenal ulcer for the last four months. After the ...