title: Acid inhibition and peptic ulcer bleeding.
abstract: Peptic ulcer bleeding is one of the most common emergency situations in medicine. Combined pharmacological and endoscopic therapy together with emerging interventional radiological procedures are successfully treating peptic ulcer disease, reserving surgical procedures for only a small portion of patients unresponsive to 'conventional' therapy. Technological advancement has seen a great improvement in the field of endoscopic treatment in the form of various methods of hemostasis. However, pharmacological therapy with proton pump inhibitors still plays the central role in the peptic ulcer bleeding treatment algorithm.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Center Rijeka, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia. davor.stimac@ri.t-com.hr
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Štimac
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Franjić
authors.forename: Ž
authors.initials: Ž
authors.lastname: Krznarić
mesh_terms: D005744:Gastric Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000150:complications; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D054328:Proton Pump Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D054328:Proton Pump Inhibitors