Tag: "duodenal" at medical news

Intake of too Much Salt Could Lead to Stomach Ulcer

...pylori bacterium accounts for up to 90 per cent of duodenal ulcers and up to 80 per cent of gastric ulcers. Many people carry the bacterium without experiencing any symptoms. And some of those who are affected suffer far less severe symptoms than others. Researchers at the Uniformed Services University of...

NewYork-Presbyterian Receives Highest Accreditation for Bariatric Surgery

...luding gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, duodenal switch, sleeve gastrectomy and others," says Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi, surgeon-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and the Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. "Patients can expect privacy and per...

For Super-Obese Patients, Duodenal Switch Beats Gastric Bypass

...ity of Chicago found that a newer operation//, the duodenal switch, produced substantially better weight-loss ...Annals of Surgery, the researchers report that the duodenal switch (DS) produced greater weight loss than the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) by all measures in...

Scientists Discover Non-dietary Therapy For Celiac Diseases

...ity within ten minutes under simulated gastric and duodenal conditions. In this tag-team therapy, EP-B2 fir...t were then easier for PEP to fully detoxify under duodenal conditions. "Our results suggest that recombinant EP-B2 should be effective as supportive therapy to...

Is Nexium? beneficial for patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome?

...people with ZES are prone to recurrent gastric and duodenal ulcers; other symptoms include abdominal pain, dia...owed evidence of erosive esophagitis or gastric or duodenal (located in the upper region of the small intestine) ulcers at 12 months. "Zollinger-Ellison syndr...

Receptor for H.pylori Identified in Stomach

...stomach. ‘Ulcers are a breach in the gastric or duodenal mucosa and gastric adenocarcinoma is one type of cancer of the stomach,’ explains senior author Dr. Richard M. Peek, Jr. of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. ‘H. pylori alters acid production and can lead to increased acid outputs which c...

Patients on NSAIDS have reduced gastric ulcers risk by Nexium?

...ix-month trial) at risk of developing a gastric or duodenal ulcer as a result of older age (>60 years) and/or a history of previous gastric ulcers. The results were noted and analyzed for the study. ...

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to challenge patents on drug

...tion. Omeprazole is indicated for the treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers. The FDA granted the marketing exclusivity to Andrx group of the US. The loss of marketing exclusivity is a setback for Dr Reddy’s, but this will be temporary. This is to be expected in the game of patent challenges but since gene...

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