[The characteristics of the clinical picture and treatment of chronic primary gastroduodenitis in elderly patients].

Decrease in the frequency and degree of ulcer-like pain and dyspeptic syndromes, tendency toward transition to ulcer disease, increase in the frequency of concomitant disorders of digestive system, and of age-related background diseases, were revealed as a result of the examination of 118 patients with chronic primary gastroduodenitis. Lowered indices for the stomach acid formation, atrophy of gastroduodenal mucosa, general disturbances in bioenergetics occurred more often than not. Restriction in anthacides, use of agents capable of improving microcirculation, reparation, energy exchange, and phytotherapy, are the options recommended.