gastro ./ gastrointestinal tract
Peptic Ulcer Disease
An ulcer is defined as a breach in the mucosa of the alimentary tract, which extends through the muscularis mucosae into the submucosa or deeper. Although ulcers may occur anywhere in the alimentary tract, none are as prevalent as the peptic ulcers that occur in the duodenum and stomach. Acute gastric ulcers may also appear under conditions of severe systemic stress.
Peptic ulcers
Peptic ulcers are chronic , most often solitary, lesions that occur in any portion of the gastrointestinal tract exposed to the aggressive action of acid peptic juices. Peptic ulcers are usually solitary lesions less than 4 cm in diameter, located in the following sites, in order of decreasing frequency:
Duodenum, first portion
Stomach, usually antrum
At the gastroesophageal junction, in the setting of gastroesophageal reflux
Within the margins of a gastrojejunostromy
In the duodenum,stomach, or jejunum of patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
Within or adjacent to a Meckel diverticulum that contains ectopic gastric mucosa
In the United States, approximately 4 million people have peptic ulcers (duodenal and gasteric), and 350,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Around 100,000 patients are hospitalized yearly , and about 3000 people die each year as a result of peptic ulcer disease. The lifetime likelihood of developing a peptic ulcer is about 10% for American men and 4% for women. Visit for Medical help
Peptic ulcers are remitting , relapsing lesions that are most often diagnosed in middle aged to older aged, but
?I can't dance, I can't relate, only thing about me is the way I confabulate!?
Mark and I were talking about Roko's dancing basilisk and he suggested I feed it my 6809 ANS Forth implementation,
on the assumption that no one has fed an assembly-based project through it.
Before feeding it that one though,
I decided to try a simpler program,
my 6809 disassembler written in 6809 assembly code and ? well ? I'm not sure if anything is terribly wrong with it because it's just the source code in prose,
and repetative prose at that.
But it's a single 1,200 line file?way smaller than mod_blog and a09.
Makes sense that it's probably okay,
if boringly repetitious.
I then ran it over my ANS Forth implementation and ? wow ? it can't count to save its life.
None of the line counts are accurate in that table,
and the line count for the source file is way out of line.
No,
the source file isn't 30,000+ lines of code!
Yes,
it's sizable,
at 12,000 lines,
but it's not 30,000+.
But it does lead me to believe that any project that is close to,
or over,
10,000 lines of code will have errors in the generated ?documentation.?
The other sizable error I found before falling asleep is the main runtime routine isn't DOCOL
(which is a name used by a lot of 8-bit Forth implementations)
but forth_core_colon.runtime.
If there are other errors,
I don't know.
I couldn't make myself to through more of its ?documentation.?
Ugh.
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A decision on semantic versioning
I finally decided on version 8.0.8 for CGILib.
The main rational?I think I'm the only one using this,
and to me,
this is a bug fix,
and it doesn't change the intended API at all.
So version 8.0.8 it is!
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they may first become evident in young adult life. They often appear without obvious precipitating influences and may then after a periof of weeks to months of active disease, heal with or without therapy. Even with healing however, the propensity to develop peptic ulcers remains in part because of the propensity for recurrent infections with H.pylori. The male to female ration for duodenal ulcers is about 3:1 and for gasteric ulcers about 1.5 to 2:1. Women are most often affected at or after menopause. For unknown reasons, there has been a significant decrease in the prevalence of duodenal ulcers over the past decades but little change in the prevalence of gastric ulcers.
Peptic ulcers appear to be produced by an imbalance between the gastroduodenal mucosal defense mechanisms and the damaging forces. Gastric acid and pepsin are requisite for all peptic ulcerations. Hyperacidity is not a prerequisite because only a minority of patients with duodenal ulcers have hyperacidity, and it is even less common in those with gastric ulcers. Gasric ulceration can rapidily occur when mucosal defenses fall, however as when mucosal blood flow drops gastric emptying is delayed or epithelial restitution is impaired. Article Source: http://www.articlemap.com For More information visit www.medicalhealthcenter.net
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