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Symposium Peptic ulcer disease: NSAIDs

Use of NSAIDs

An assault on the upper gastrointestinal tract

Pages 63-68 | Published online: 05 Dec 2017
 

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Certain populations, particularly the elderly, are vulnerable to complications from the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Rates of hospital admission for perforated ulcer are rising in these patients, who have an associated risk of gastrointestinal hemorrhage and death. Studies have shown that some NSAIDs cause less harm to the stomach and duodenum than others and that prostaglandin E analogues given concomitantly may protect the mucosa.

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Russell I. Heigh

Russell I. Heigh, MD Dr Heigh is consultant, division of gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, and assistant professor of medicine, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota.

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