Did You Know ? Surgical Fact #1

Peptic ulcer disease was once being recognized as a complicated disease which can turn out to be life threatening. For more than a century, it was often being treated surgically, with resulting high morbidity and mortality rate.  The perception of the pathophysiology of peptic ulcer disease has totally changed during the 1980s, when Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren discovered the relationship between helicobacter pylori with gastritis and gastric ulcer. Since then, the management of peptic ulcer disease has been shifted towards conservative treatment with various pharmacological therapy being  introduced to inhibit the gastric acid secretions and to eradicate the H.pylori J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren were being awared the 2005 Nobel prize for their contribution.