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Peptic Ulcer Learning Center
Treatments could include:
- Smoking Cessation
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Partial Gastrectomy
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Total Gastrectomy
- Proximal Gastric Va...
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Avoid Aspirin
- Truncal Vagotomy wi...
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Decrease Alcohol Intake
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Reduce Caffeine Intake
- Vagotomy
- Gastrectomy
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Treatment involves a combination of medications to kill the H. pylori bacteria (if present), and reduce acid levels in the stomach. This strategy allows your ulcer to heal and reduces the chance it will come back.
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Surgical treatment of ulcers is generally used only for complications and suspected malignancies. The most common surgical procedures that are used are vagotomies, in which the connections of the vagus nerve to the stomach are cut in order to redu...
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Smoking prevalence has been declining in countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, but these declines are matched by increasing rates in most other countries. The Healthy People 2010 goal in the United States ...
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There are a lot of ways to quit smoking and many resources to help you. Family members, friends, and coworkers may be supportive or encouraging, but the desire and commitment to quit must be your own. Most people who have been able to successfully...
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Smoking cessation is the medical term for quitting smoking. It is a vital part of cancer prevention because smoking is the single most preventable cause of death from cancer. As early as 1982, the Surgeon General reported that tobacco causes more ...
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Smoking cessation means "to quit smoking," or "withdrawal from nicotine." Because smoking is highly addictive, quitting the habit often involves irritability, headache, mood swings, and cravings associated with the sudden cessation or reduction of...
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Vagotomy is the surgical cutting of the vagus nerve to reduce acid secretion in the stomach.
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Pyloroplasty is a surgical procedure in which the pylorus valve at the lower portion of the stomach is cut and resutured, relaxing and widening its muscular opening (pyloric sphincter) into the duodenum (first part of the small intestine). Pylorop...
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Vagotomy is the surgical cutting of the vagus nerve to reduce acid secretion in the stomach.
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Gastrectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of the stomach.
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Gastrectomy is surgery to remove part or all of the stomach.
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Gastrectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of the stomach.
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