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Can peptic ulcers be healed with 7 days of proton-pump-inhibitor-based triple therapy?

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boxed-textGisbert JP and Pajares JM (2005) Systematic review and meta-analysis: is 1-week proton pump inhibitor-based triple therapy sufficient to heal peptic ulcers? Aliment Pharmacol Ther 21: 795–804

One week of PPI-based triple therapy heals most peptic ulcers if H. pylori is eradicated, but acid suppression should continue in patients with bleeding or gastric ulcers, or significant comorbidity

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Atherton, J. Can peptic ulcers be healed with 7 days of proton-pump-inhibitor-based triple therapy?. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2, 346–347 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpgasthep0235

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