BACKGROUND: Giant duodenal ulcer (GDU) perforation remains an extremely uncommon but a rather challenging condition to manage wherein routine surgical procedures are fraught with an extremely high ...

Melvin Tyrone Bush, 59, died from "acute complications of a perforated duodenal ulcer — a serious medical condition that required prompt and appropriate care," according to the lawsuit filed by his ...

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Stomach cancer can cause black stools, also known as melena, which are a sign of bleeding in the stomach. It happens both in the early and advanced stages of stomach cancer. Read on to know a few ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;22(3):345-348. Simple closure of perforation by an omental patch is the usual procedure performed for perforated duodenal ulcer. However, it has an unacceptably high ...

Peptic ulcers can become serious and even life-threatening if ulcers aren't treated or treatment isn't effective. The most common complications include bleeding, perforation of the stomach or duodenal ...

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ibuprofen can make you more likely to get stomach ulcers, the NHS warns. Your doctor will prescribe you a medicine to protect your stomach if you're taking ibuprofen for a long-term health condition.

Nurses hoping to reduce the rate of pressure ulcers in their hospitals are using a mannequin and self-made fake wounds to help teach colleagues about spotting and treating tissue damage in their ...

peptic ulcers, gastroparesis. Many stomach diseases are associated with infection, such as with Helicobacter pylori. Common symptoms are nausea, bloating, diarrhoea and abdominal pain.

Introduction: Anomalous congenital bands are a rare cause of intestinal obstruction, with only five previously reported cases involving duodenal obstruction ... non-viable, or perforated segments of ...

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