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- Title
Drug consumption before perforation of peptic ulcer.
- Authors
Jørgensen, T. Glarborg
- Abstract
In a retrospective study of 195 patients with a perforated peptic ulcer 18 per cent of the patients had taken aspirn, phenylbutzone or corticosteroids during the period before the perforation. In a controlled prospective trial, 18 of 22 patients (82 per cent) had taken drugs known to be potentially harmful to the stomach. Aspirin was the drug mainly used. Thirteen of 22 patients had taken the drugs within 12 hours of the perforation, usually because of symptoms not related to the gastro-intestinal tract. Drug consumption and perforation of pre-pyloric ulcers were most closely associated; the latter applies particularly to female patients, who either had only a short history of upper gastro-intenstinal dyspepsia or were asymptomatic.
- Publication
British Journal of Surgery, 1977, Vol 64, Issue 4, p247
- ISSN
0007-1323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bjs.1800640406