[Peptic ulcer disease in patients with diabetes mellitus]

Vnitr Lek. 2011 Apr;57(4):347-50.
[Article in Czech]

Abstract

Peptic ulcer disease and diabetes mellitus are the serious chronic diseases with many medicals and socioeconomic consequences. Although the changes leading to the mucosal vulnerability and prolonged healing of ulcers were many times demonstrated in experiment, the clinical data does not confirmed explicit association of those diseases. The patients with diabetes mellitus are threatened by complications of peptic ulcer disease (bleeding, perforation) above all. The Helicobacter pylori prevalence is in diabetics higher, the results of eradication of Helicobacter pylori are unsatisfactory.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Diabetes Complications* / microbiology
  • Helicobacter Infections / complications
  • Helicobacter pylori
  • Humans
  • Peptic Ulcer / complications*
  • Peptic Ulcer / microbiology
  • Peptic Ulcer / physiopathology