Comparison of two sucralfate dosages presented in tablet form in duodenal ulcer healing.

Two hundred twenty-two patients with endoscopically proven duodenal ulcers participated in a controlled trial to assess and compare the effects of two dosage regimens of sucralfate tablets on ulcer healing, i.e., 1 g four times daily (group A, n = 131) and 2 g twice daily (group B, n = 128).

[Non-surgical treatment of hemorrhoids].

The treatment of hemorrhoids includes a vast array of medical and instrumental means. If there is no true medical treatment, there are numerous products in order to act on the symptoms or one of the factors of the hemorrhoidal complex. Thus, phlebotonics, local topical agents, anti-infectious and anti-inflammatory agents, myorelaxants, transit regulators.

[Maintenance therapy of ulcer disease. Comparative multicenter study of sucralfate, cimetidine and a placebo].

Relapse rates were studied in one hundred patients in a multicentric, randomized trial during and after maintenance therapy comparing sucralfate, cimetidine and placebo. These patients were previously treated by cimetidine for peptic ulcer and were considered cured after endoscopic examination. Outpatients were randomly assigned to a 6 month maintenance treatment with either cimetidine (600 mg daily), sucralfate (300 mg daily) or a placebo.

[Anorectal manifestations of sexually transmissible diseases. Kaposi's sarcoma].

The proctologist is above all concerned with the known recrudescence of venereal diseases. Examples reviewed are diseases of bacterial origin (syphilis, gonorrhea, soft chancre, donovanosis and chlamydiosis), appropriate antibiotic therapy and diseases of viral origin (herpes, condyloma acuminatum). Also noted are other bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases and, indeed, cancers of which Kaposi's sarcoma is the example, even though these are not manifested anorectally.

[Apparently primary malignant lymphoma of the rectum. Presentation of a case].

With reference to a case of apparently primary lymphoma of the rectum, the authors emphasize the difficulty of diagnosis, which requires deep biopsies, and of categorizing clinical cases in view of the constantly modified classifications. Treatment modalities, whose choice is dependent upon the disease itself and the general state of health of the individual patient, are summarized.