Word: duodenum
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...brand-name preparations. Since it has laxative properties, some manufacturers combine it with aluminum hydroxide, which is also antacid but, taken alone, is slightly constipating. Several proprietary preparations contain magnesium trisilicate, which neutralizes acid by both chemical and physical reactions and forms a gelatinous lining in the stomach and duodenum that may protect the crater of an ulcer...
...stomach (gastritis) is part of the pattern of peptic ulcer. Then the trouble is not a simple backup of the evening's Scotch, steak and potato but a too-free flow of hydrochloric acid and other digestive juices from the stomach walls into the stomach itself and the duodenum. The excess juices find a vulnerable spot in the stomach wall or duodenum and, in effect, digest that. The result is an ulcer...
...lung cancer, from which cigarette smokers have a death rate almost eleven times as high as that for nonsmokers. Smokers' death rates from other diseases are: bronchitis and emphysema, 6.1 times the rate for nonsmokers; cancer of the larynx, 5.4 times as high; ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, 2.8; cancer of the bladder, 1.9; coronary artery disease, 1.7; hypertensive heart disease, 1.5. (Heart and artery diseases combined cause many more premature deaths than does lung cancer...
...latest advance in ulcer surgery is still simpler, less mutilating, and therefore "more elegant" by Dr. Moore's definition. This consists of "pyloroplasty," or widening the gate valve between stomach and duodenum by slitting its muscular ring, or "sphincter" (fourth diagram). The tissue is stretched, then the slit is closed at right angles. Such operations (there are several variants) had been around since 1886, but not until 1947 did Dr. Joseph Weinberg of the Long Beach (Calif.) VA Hospital try the promising combination of vagotomy and pyloroplasty. A vagotomy by itself tends to make the stomach flaccid so that...
...Madden reviewed the cases of 554 patients who have had various operations or combinations of them at St. Clare's Hospital, and reached a surprising conclusion: the best operation for most patients is "antrectomy" -removal of 35% to 40% of the stomach and hooking the remainder to the duodenum. Dr. Madden dismissed vagotomy alone as unsatisfactory, and gave the Weinberg operation a low rating because too often it fails to effect a cure...