ACID-PEPTIC DISEASE
The normal stomach can secrete H+ at 1000 times its concentration in extracellular fluid in association with potent proteolytic enzymes. It is not surprising, therefore, that gastric juice is fully capable of injuring the host as well as digesting components of the diet. Acid-peptic disease, which refers nonspecifically to disorders associated with such injury, includes peptic ulcer of the duodenum and stomach (and rarely of the jejunum or of a Meckel’s diverticulum), some forms of gastritis, and reflux esophagitis. The latter entity has been discussed in Chapter 38.
- APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH RENAL DISEASE
- Therapy
- CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND DIAGNOSIS
- PATHOLOGY
- RESPIRATORY CONTROL CENTERS
- TREATMENT
- Conservative Management
- THE APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE
- Public health and environment
- EMPHYSEMA
- Minimal Change Nephropathy
- SCREENING TESTS OF HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE
- The Use of Diuretics
- CLINICAL AMD LABORATORY FEATURES
- SPECIFIC ARRHYTHMIAS - sinus nodal rhythm disturbances
- VARIATiT ANGINA
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- MEDIASTINAL DISEASE
- Clinical Manifestations
- Blood Chemistries
- BRORICHODILATORS
- ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS
- GAS TRANSFER
- GLOMERULAR DISEASE
- MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY
- POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- PERICARDIAL EFFUSIOH
- RADIOGRAPHIC AND ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURES IN GASTROENTEROLOGY
- Clinical Manifestations
- NORMAL ESOPHAGEAL PHYSIOLOGY
- ACUTE AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS - DEFIRILTIORI
- Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome
- ATRIAL RHYTHM DISTURBANCES
- CHEST WALL DISEASE
- RAYNAUD’S PHENOMENON