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Focus on Peptic Ulcer Disease
DESCRIPTION:Reprint from Medical Sciences Bulletin
Good description of disease and treatment
Some literature references

URL: HTTP://pharminfo.com/pubs/msb/peptic.html

Helicobacter pylori-Associated Peptic Ulcer Disease: Treatment Options
DESCRIPTION:Details of treatments with literature references

URL: HTTP://www.tdh.texas.gov/hcf/hpylori.htm

Literature References

T. Arakawa, et al
Ulcer Recurrence: Cytokines and Inflammatory Response-Dependent Process
Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 43: 61S (1998)

The European Helicobacter pylori Study Group
Current European Concepts in the Management of Helicobacter pylori Infection
The Maastricht Consensus Report

P. Malfertheiner et al
Does Helicobacter pylori Status affect Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug-Associated Gastroduodenal Pathology?
The American J. Medicine, 104: 36s (1998)

S. Levenstein
Stress and Peptic Ulcer: Life Beyond Helicobacter
Britis Medical Jopurnal, 316: 538 (1998)

C. Stewart Goodwin
Helicobacter pylori Infection
The Lancet, 349: 265 (1997)

L. Laine et al
Helicobacter pylori and Peptic Ulcer Disease
Postgraduate Medicine, 103: 231 (1998)

R. M. Peek et al
Pathophysiology of Helicobacter pylori-Induced Gastritis and Peptic Ulcer Disease
American J. of Medicine, 102: 200 (1997)


Peptic Ulcer - Patient Info
DESCRIPTION: none
URL: HTTP://www.ddc.org/pat/peptic_ulcer.html

Peptic Ulcer Disease
DESCRIPTION:Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Pathogenesis.
Glaxo's site has it all, but doesn't go into quite enough detail
Weak on treatments
Nice list of literature references

URL: http://www.ginet.com/infogate/pud.htm#trea

Peptic Ulcer Disease: The Rest of the Story
DESCRIPTION:PharmInfonet reproduces a short bulletin from the American College of Gastroenterology.
Dr. Graham focus his presentation on the premise that while Helicobacter pylori infections play an important role in the pathogenesis of ulcers (H. pylori is associated with approximately 95% of duodenal ulcers and 60% of gastric ulcers), we should not overlook the key role that nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) continue to play in the development of ulcer disease.
Links to drug names.
URL: HTTP://www.pharminfo.com/meeting/ACG/acg_ehlb33.html

Peptic Ulcer Disease: Treatment Options Fact Sheet
DESCRIPTION:Descriptions of multiple drug treatments
Table of drugs with dosages and H. pylori eradication rates

URL: http://www.tdh.texas.gov/hcf/hpytrea.htm

Spiral Bacteria in the Human Stomach
DESCRIPTION:This review summarizes our current knowledge of the two Helicobacter species that have been observed in the human stomach and reported on extensively in the literature: H. pylori, the type strain, and H. heilmannii, also known as Gastrospirillum hominis.
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol1no3/dubois.htm

Stomach and Duodenal Ulcers
DESCRIPTION:Answers to these questions and more from Dr. Barry Marshall
What Is an Ulcer? Who Has Ulcers? What Causes Ulcers?
What Are the Symptoms of Ulcers? How Are Ulcers Diagnosed?
How Are Ulcers Treated?
The History of Helicobacter pylori
URL: HTTP://

The Helicobacter Foundation
DESCRIPTION:The "Helicobacter Foundation" was founded by Dr.Barry J. Marshall in
early 1994, and is dedicated to providing you with the latest information
about Helicobacter pylori, its diagnosis, treatment and clinical
correlations.
URL: HTTP://www.helico.com/


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