Ulcerate

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Endoscopic image of an ulcer duodénal

One ulcerate is a reduction in volume of fabrics in the form of a lesion which does not heal.

Ulcerate digestive system

Whether it touches the stomach or the duodenum, the ulcer generally implies a bacterium: Helicobacter pylori. This discovery must with J. Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall and their it was worth Nobel Prize of medicine in 2005.

However, other factors facilitate some occurred like the stress or certain drugs.

Treatments

Since the use of antibiotics, the complications and the repetitions of the ulcer gastro-duodénal fell in very important proportions. Today, 90 % of the patients cure and do not keep after-effects thanks to a medicamentous treatment of a few weeks.

 

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