[Importance of some apudocytes in gastric ulcer bleeding prediction]

In 6 patients with uncomplicated gastric ulcer (GU) and 8 patients with GU complicated by acute bleeding morphohistochemical and ultrastructural analysis of apudocytes of gastric mucous membrane in the ulcer, periulcer and remote zone was carried out with detection of morphofunctional changes predicting ulcer bleeding. It is established that G- and ECL-apudocytes hyperplasia and hyperfunction in these zones have stable, irreversible nature in gastric ulcer bleeding, and are reliable prognostic criteria of this complication.