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Dyspepsia: preliminary experience with upper gastrointestinal fibreoptic endoscopy in Eldoret
1Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.
East African Medical Journal
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
Fibreoptic oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) was performed on 45 dysplastic patients suspected of having peptic ulcer (PU). Evidence of PU was found in 39.9% and no abnormality was detected in 60%. Epigastric pain alone (62.2%) and with vomiting (15.5%) were the major reasons for suspecting PU. There were no complications arising from the procedure. It is concluded that OGD is a safe procedure which should be made more available and that the pattern of PUD in Eldoret is similar to that in Nairobi.