PEPTIC ACID DISEASE

Enfermedad ácido péptica

  Acid peptic disease (PAD) constitutes one of the most frequent queries in general medical practice, both in the emergency department and outpatient external; for this reason it is essential for good general practitioner, snagging a concrete and firm knowledge about this subject. Moreover, not only about this specific pathology but from its complications such as the digestive bleeding, although this would be a different item for which we are concerned in this review.

There are areas of predominance of incidence of EAP in the stomach, checking cups duodenal ulcers in 15-20% of new cases per year with exacerbations in 3
- 4 times / year with bleeding complications in 2-3% of patients per year, which is the most frequent complication, since <5% of patients throughout their life course with perforation or obstruction

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