Complicated course of duodenal ulcer in children of senior school age: causes, diagnostic criteria for determination

Bleeding from duodenal ulcers is the most formidable complication and occupies one of the first places in the structure of mortality from duodenal ulcer. The anamnestic, clinical features and pH indices in children with duodenal ulcers were studied. 42 children of the senior school age with duodenal ulcers were examined, of them 12 had a complication in the form of ulcerous bleeding. The study makes it possible to consider the sex, age, heredity, erosive nature of gastroduodenitis, multiple ulcers, high bacterial contamination, low pH in the anthroduodenal zone as predictors of complicated course of JBD