A 68 year old retired physician consults you about an episode of severe dyspepsia on a background of 20 years of mild indigestion. She is overweight but otherwise in good health. She is taking omeprazole 20mg nocte, drinks 10 units of alcohol per week and takes naproxen for arthralgias two to three times per week. You take an antral biopsy and apply a CLO test for helicobacter pylori. This is strongly positive.
Histological investigation confirms both gastritis and helicobacter infection.
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