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Abstract
Recent reports suggest that there is no firm physiologic support for the clinical impression that pregnancy per se improves peptic ulcer. On the contrary, it can have a detrimental effect.
Four cases are presented to demonstrate that peptic ulcer can be aggravated during pregnancy and suddenly present its most severe complications of perforation and hemorrhage.