[The role of the polyclinic in raising the efficacy of rehabilitation with peptic ulcer patients]

Abstract

The authors provide the results of the treatment and prophylaxis of peptic ulcer (PU) patients followed up by the polyclinic for 14 years. On a large factual material they estimate the efficacy of PU patients treatment with the use of drugs belonging to different groups, including drugs that exert antisecretory, cytoprotective and antibacterial effects. During the follow-up period, the number of patients with medium-grave and grave PU decreased whereas that of patients with mild disease and no relapses rose for 4-5 years and over (from 4.8% in 1972 to 39.6% in 1989). It has been established that the efficacy of rehabilitation measures for PU is determined by a lot of factors, first of all by adequate drug therapy with the use of the novel pharmacological preparations: selective blockers of histamine H2-receptors (ranitidine, famotidine), colloidal bismuth subcitrate (de-nol) that exert a cytoprotective and antibacterial action on Helicobacter pylori. The combination of the indicated remedies with antibacterial drugs (trichopol, oxacillin, furazolidon) for the treatment of PU relapses and their prevention is based.