[Efficacy of ambulatory treatment of patients with primary chronic gastroduodenitis].

The authors studied the efficacy of the treatment of 80 patients with primary chronic gastroduodenitis on an ambulatory basis. Use was made of spasmolytics, cholinolytics, antacids, sedative agents together with reflexotherapy, dietetic management and physiotherapy. As a result of the treatment, positive changes were recorded in the clinical, functional (intragastric pH-metry with the sodium carbonate test), endoscopic, histomorphologic, morphometric and immunologic characteristics. The changes in the characteristics indicated were examined both shortly after the treatment (1 to 1.5 month) and in the long-term period. Duodenal ulcer developed in 4 persons (5%) in the long-term period, which is 5 times more seldom as compared to the reported data.