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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Peptic Ulcer Disease
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Demographics, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Noninvasive testing for H pylori
, Endoscopic testing for H pylori
, Imaging Studies, Diagnostic Procedures, Treatment, Medications, Peptic ulcers with active H pylori infection, Peptic ulcers with no H pylori infection, Surgery, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Follow-Up, Complications, Prognosis, Prevention, When to Refer, When to Admit, References,
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Topics Discussed: peptic ulcer disease.
Excerpt: | |  Serologic, fecal antigen, or urea breath tests
Proton pump inhibitors may cause false-negative urea breath tests and fecal antigen tests and should be withheld for at least 7 days before testing Because of its lower sensitivity (85%) and specificity (79%), serologic testing should not be performed unless fecal antigen testing or urea breath testing is unavailable |
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