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SHOULD WE BE CHANGING OUR OPERATIVE STRATEGIES FOR THE ACUTE COMPLICATIONS OF PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE?
Author(s) -
Jamieson G. G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1988.tb06188.x
Subject(s) - medicine , peptic ulcer , disease , intensive care medicine , blockade , general surgery , surgery , receptor
H 2 ‐receptor blockade for the treatment of peptic ulcer disease has been with us for over a decade and has led to a dramatic decrease in the number of operations being performed for chronic ulcer disease. Many surgeons feel that the swing away from ulcer surgery has gone too far. 1 Nevertheless surgeons may have been slow to grasp the importance of H 2 ‐receptor blockers in the management of the acute complications of ulcer disease.