A positive diagnosis can be made only after ruling out gastric and duodenal ulcer. 只有排除了胃溃疡和十二指肠溃疡的可能性之后,才能作出明确诊断。
gastric
[ adj ] relating to or involving the stomach <adj.pert> gastric ulcer
Gastric \Gas"tric\, a. [Gr. ?, ?, stomach: cf. F. gastrique.] Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.
{Gastric digestion} (Physiol.), the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice.
{Gastric fever} (Med.), a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms; -- a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever.
{Gastric juice} (Physiol.), a thin, watery fluid, with an acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of dilute hydrochloric acid and the ferment pepsin. It is the most important digestive fluid in the body, but acts only on proteid foods.
{Gastric remittent fever} (Med.), a form of remittent fever with pronounced stomach symptoms.
The researchers said such symptoms of the infection as abdominal pain, fever and nausea are often confused with those of acute appendicitis, chronic bowel inflammation, gastric ulcer or gastrointestinal cancer.
SmithKline Beckman Corp. said the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a 800 milligram, once-daily dose of Tagamet for treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers.
One hypothesis is that a chain of sugars found only in type A blood may help H. pylori attach itself to the stomach lining. It is not yet known whether eradicating H. pylori affects gastric cancer (as opposed to lymphoma).
Doctors in El Salvador diagnosed a gastric ulcer last week and recommended the 62-year-old president seek treatment outside the country.
But "there was no signficant difference between the groups in the incidence of gastric ulceration" or stomach ulcers, the report said.