A 45 year-old man comes to the emergency by Dr. Laurence Bailen

Question 4 / 32: A 45 year-old man comes to the emergency room after passing tarry black stool for 3 days. He has had intermittent epigastric pain with nausea but no vomiting. An upper endoscopy is performed and a large ulcer in the duodenal bulb is seen.

Which of the following would you most likely find in this patient’s stomach?

Basal acid production twice below normal

High acid production in response to a meal

Negative rapid urease test for h.pylori

Reduced sensitivity of parietal cells to gastrin

Very high serum gastrin levels

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Explanation:

Rabeprazole is a proton-pump inhibitor. The proton-pump inhibitors are most effective in prevented gastric complications from patients on NSAIDs.

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Attribution: Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

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