title: [New findings in the etiopathogenesis of ulcers and reevaluation of therapy].
abstract: The etiopathogenesis of ulcer disease is comprehensive and many experimental and clinical data failed to prove the primary cause of the disease. Although much has been learned concerning the pathophysiological mechanism which appear important in the development of ulcer disease, our present knowledge of the etiology of this disease is incomplete. Depression of the gastric acid secretion still remains the main treatment approach, although the cytoprotective drugs are interesting therapeutic challenge. Etiology of the peptic ulcer disease is not solved yet, but the defense mechanisms of the gastric mucosa are much more clear what will lead to better understanding of the defense mechanisms in the gastric cancer. Omeprazole is an interesting new drug healing peptic ulcer in almost 100% of the patients. A philosophic question may be asked: "Do we need to know the etiology of the disease in order to be able to treat it properly?" Omeprazole heals the ulcer and, in fact, we do not know its etiology. In the cost-benefit ratio, the most widely used drugs are still H2-receptor antagonists and sucralfate, and omeprazole is reserved for the patients with resistant ulcer disease, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and severe reflux esophagitis.
authors.affiliation: Interna klinika, KB Sestre milosrdnice Zagreb.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rotkvić
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Troskot
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Duvnjak
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Supanc
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Bitne novosti u etiopatogenezi ulkusa i reevaluacija terapije.