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 Translation for 'peptic ulcer' from English to Icelandic
SYNO peptic ulcer | peptic ulceration
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magasár {hv}
peptic ulcer
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munnangur {hv}
aphthous ulcer
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skeifugarnarsár {hv}
duodenal ulcer
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munnangurssár {hv}
aphthous ulcer
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þrýstings­sár {hv}
decubitus ulcer
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magasár {hv}
gastric ulcer [Ulcus ventriculi]
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Usage Examples English
  • The cause of death was cardiac arrest consistent with a hypovolemic shock generated by a chronic hemorrhage due to peptic ulcer disease.
  • Testing is recommended if peptic ulcer disease or low-grade gastric MALT lymphoma (MALToma) is present, after endoscopic resection of early gastric cancer, for first-degree relatives with gastric cancer, and in certain cases of dyspepsia.
  • Physicians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren argued that "Helicobacter pylori" contributes to peptic ulcer disease, but throughout the early 1980s, the scientific community initially rejected their findings because not all "H.
  • Human immune response toward the bacteria also determines the emergence of peptic ulcer disease.
  • One 2006 review concluded that capsaicin may relieve symptoms of a peptic ulcer rather than being a cause of it.

  • Vagotomy (cutting of the vagus nerve) is a now obsolete therapy that was performed for peptic ulcer disease.
  • The urea breath test is a rapid diagnostic procedure used to identify infections by "Helicobacter pylori", a spiral bacterium implicated in gastritis, gastric ulcer, and peptic ulcer disease.
  • In the past a gastrectomy for peptic ulcer disease was often accompanied by a vagotomy, to reduce acid production. This problem is now managed with proton pump inhibitors.
  • It is used to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcer disease, and Zollinger–Ellison syndrome.
  • In contrast to peptic ulcer disease, a history of alcohol use disorder or NSAID use is usually absent in Dieulafoy's lesion.

  • People with peptic ulcer disease or taking NSAIDs should use with caution because increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding was noted.
  • Sudden, very severe bleeding is unusual—if encountered, alternative causes (such as a peptic ulcer) need to be considered—but embolization may be used in such instances.
  • In 2005, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Marshall and Robin Warren, his long-time collaborator, "for their discovery of the bacterium "Helicobacter pylori" and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease".
  • Renown Polish surgeon Ludwik Rydygier opened his private clinic in the town in 1878, where he conducted pioneering surgical operations, including the first in Poland and second in the world surgical removal of the pylorus in a patient suffering from stomach cancer in 1880 and the first in the world peptic ulcer resection in 1881.
  • ... perforated peptic ulcer, appendicitis, and diverticulitis) have a mortality rate of about <10% in otherwise healthy people.

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