Correlative study of fungal infections in peptic ulcer disease before and after treatment

ABSTRACT

25 patients were involved in this study, which showed the presence of fungal growth in 6 patients with duodenal ulcer before treatment. This number was reduced to 3 patients after treatment with H2-receptor blockers. Only one patient was negative before to turn positive after treatment. All positive cases with fungal growth proved to be yeast and among this Candida albicans was the most frequent. It was concluded from this study that the presence of fungal growth in patients with peptic ulcer disease was not related to the use of H2-Receptor blockers and that the healing rate and healing time were not affected by the presence of such growth