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Endoscopic therapy for severe ulcer bleedingThomas O G Kovacs
CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Ronald Reagan Medical Center, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, CA 90073 1003, USA
Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am 21:681-96. 2011..This article discusses the important aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of bleeding from ulcers, with a focus on endoscopic therapy...
Long-term quality of life improvement in subjects with healed erosive esophagitis: treatment with lansoprazoleThomas O Kovacs
CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
Dig Dis Sci 55:1325-36. 2010..Considerable data on the long-term maintenance of healing of EE are available, but data on long-term GERD symptom prevention and patient quality of life (QOL) are limited...
Long-term efficacy of lansoprazole in preventing relapse of erosive reflux esophagitisThomas O Kovacs
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
Dig Dis Sci 54:1693-701. 2009..Long-term lansoprazole is effective and well tolerated when used to maintain erosive esophagitis remission for <or=6 years...
Management of upper gastrointestinal bleedingThomas O G Kovacs
CURE Digestive Disease Research Center, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Building 115, Room 212, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90073 1003, USA
Curr Gastroenterol Rep 10:535-42. 2008..Effective medical and endoscopic management of ulcer hemorrhage can significantly improve outcomes and decrease the cost of medical care by reducing rebleeding, transfusion requirements, and the need for surgery...
The short-term medical management of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleedingThomas O G Kovacs
CURE Digestive Disease Research Center, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California 90073 1003, USA
Drugs 68:2105-11. 2008..Medical management with proton pump inhibitors is not a substitute for appropriate endoscopic therapy for patients with UGI bleeding and high-risk ulcer stigmata...
Endoscopic treatment of ulcer bleedingThomas O G Kovacs
Thomas O G Kovacs, MD CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Building 115, Room 212, Los Angeles, CA 90073 1003, USA
Curr Treat Options Gastroenterol 10:143-8. 2007..Effective endoscopic hemostasis of ulcer bleeding can significantly improve outcomes by reducing rebleeding, transfusion requirement, and need for surgery, as well as reduce cost of medical care...
Intravenous and oral lansoprazole are equivalent in suppressing stimulated acid output in patient volunteers with erosive oesophagitisT O G Kovacs
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, CURE Clinic, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 20:883-9. 2004..Some patients requiring acid suppression may be unable to take oral medications...
Recent advances in the endoscopic diagnosis and therapy of upper gastrointestinal, small intestinal, and colonic bleedingThomas O G Kovacs
Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, School of Medicine, CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Med Clin North Am 86:1319-56. 2002....
Lansoprazole in the treatment of functional dyspepsia: two double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trialsDavid A Peura
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Am J Med 116:740-8. 2004..This study was designed to compare the efficacy of lansoprazole with placebo in relieving upper abdominal discomfort in patients with functional dyspepsia...
Randomized trial of medical or endoscopic therapy to prevent recurrent ulcer hemorrhage in patients with adherent clotsDennis M Jensen
CURE Digestive Disease Research Center, UCLA School of Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California 90073, USA
Gastroenterology 123:407-13. 2002..Our purpose was to test the hypothesis that patients treated with combination endoscopic therapy would have significantly lower rebleeding rates than those treated with medical therapy...
Major stigmata of recent hemorrhage on rectal ulcers in patients with severe hematochezia: Endoscopic diagnosis, treatment, and outcomesFasiha Kanwal
Division of Digestive Diseases and Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
Gastrointest Endosc 57:462-8. 2003..For ulcers with major stigmata, endoscopic hemostasis is feasible but rates of recurrent bleeding are high...
