There is a rise in the rates of acute erosive gastropathies in patients with cardiovascular and other somatic diseases. The role of acute erosive gastropathy-induced hemorrhages in the tanatogenesis of these diseases is underestimated; the problems of their prevention, diagnosis, and treatment remained unsolved. Many factors, mainly acute or chronic ischemia of the gastroduodenal mucosa, as well as its age-related involution, Helicobacter pylori infection, reflux gastritis, multiple organ dysfunction, drug-induced damage, etc.
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