ABSTRACT
The existence of differences in the psychological profile of 39 endoscopically evaluated patients with ulcer (U) and non ulcer (NU) dyspepsia were examined. There were 21 U and 18 NU subjects. Cigarette smoking, intake of alcohol, coffee, mate, aspirin and NSAID were recorded, but there were no significant differences between the two groups. Personality traits were determined by the Rorschach Test, considering psychological profile (introversive, extroversive, self-restrained), impulse and emotion control (do not allow their expression, impulsive, adequately conveyed) and level of social adaptation (low, normal, high). U and NU subjects experienced a similar number of potentially stressful life events. However, U patients perceived their events more negatively. Although no one type of [quot ]ulcer personality[quot ] was found consistently, ulcer patients tended to be more introversive and they had a better social adaptation than NU.
ABSTRACT
Se analizaron 2.500 esofagogastroduodenoscopias de nuestra Institucion separando todos los casos de erosiones duodenales.Las conclusiones mas importantes se refieren a dos hechos en relacion a la existencia de EDP con respecto a las EGD.En las EDP predomino francamente la sintomatologia, fundamentalmente sindrome ulceroso (dolor epigastrico), tipico o atipico (P < 0,01). A su vez las EGD tuvieron una clara predominancia de sangrado sobre las EDP (P < 0,01), sugiriendo que las EDP deben considerarse una entidad nosologica distinta a las EGD. Los antecedentes ulcerogenos (drogas, stress, alcohol, etc), fueron francamente positivos en ambos grupos cuando hubo sangrado, mientras que existieron en muy bajo porcentaje en los casos sin hemorragia, sugiriendo que su presencia es importante en la produccion del sangrado, pero no en la formacion de las erosiones en si