A concept of the etiology of gastric and duodenal ulcers.
A concept of the etiology of gastric and duodenal ulcers.
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胃和十二指肠溃疡病因学的概念。
DOI:
10.1016/s0016-5085(56)80128-5
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发表时间:
1956
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L. Dragstedt
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作者:
L. Dragstedt
Recent studies in the laboratory and the clinic have permitted a new concept of the etiology of gastric and duodenal ulcers that appears to be helpful in explaining some of the differences in these lesions, particularly in their response to surgical treatment. The disease is commonly termed peptic ulcer for it is believed to be caused in some way by the corrosive or digestive action of the gastric content. The occurrence of the lesions only in mucous membrane that is exposed to gastric juice is strong evidence in favor of this opinion, and a large variety of experiments on lower animals has established the fact that the pure fundic secretion can digest away the normal mucosa of the stomach and intestines, producing a defect that closely resembles the ulcer seen in man.Under normal conditions the wall of the stomach is not damaged by gastric digestion, but it appears possible that digestion of the mucous membrane with ulcer formation might result either from a decrease in the resistance of a local area to the digestive action of the gastric content or from an increase in the corrosive properties of the gastric content, assuming that the resistance of the mucous membrane remains normal. The failure of the gastric and duodenal mucosa to be digested away in normal individuals appeared to demand the postulate of a local decrease in resistance if ulceration was to be accounted for on the basis of peptic digestion. This requirement leads naturally to the view that ulcers are due to a local decrease in the resistance of the mucosa brought about by vascular impairment, deficiency of protective mucus, local allergy, anoxia of the cells or to other factors. The prompt recurrence of ulceration after the local excision of duodenal ulcers casts grave doubt on this view of a local decrease in resistance as being the causative factor in the disease, and careful examination of resected stomachs has also usually failed to reveal evidence of vascular pathology. The other side of the equation is more promising, and there is much to suggest that in ulcer patients the corrosive and digestive properties of the gastric content are much greater than in normal people. The corrosive prop-