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Presentation of Case

A 35-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent melena after treatment for a gastric ulcer with positive tests for Helicobacter pylori.

The patient had been well until 21 months earlier, when abdominal pain developed. Two months later melena appeared, and she was admitted to another hospital, where endoscopic examination showed a bleeding gastric ulcer. Four transfusions of packed red cells were given, and she was treated with several histamine H₂-receptor antagonists. At the time of discharge she was receiving ranitidine therapy. The following month a repeated endoscopic examination revealed a healed gastric ulcer and the presence . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Jacques Van Dam's Diagnoses

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

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