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Brohée Lecture at Gastro 2009. Acid secretion in the developed world – now too much of a good thing ?Price: €10,00 |
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There has been a remarkable change in the human
stomach in the western world over the past few decades.
Fifty years ago, most adults in the western world had
their stomach colonized by Helicobacter pylori infection.
The associated chronic mucosal inflammation
caused a progressive loss of specialized parietal cells and
a consequent reduction in acid secretion with increasing
age. H. pylori has colonized the human stomach since at
least the time our ancestors migrated from Africa
65,000 years ago (Fig. 1). Diminution in acid secretion
with increasing age has therefore been a feature of the
stomach since as long ago as we know. The very recent
disappearance of H. pylori infection means that acid
secretion is maintained throughout life and is thus now
substantially higher in adults than it was in previous
generations . One important question that needs to be
addressed is whether the new pattern of acid secretion is
suited to our current environment in the western world. [Product Details...] |
The Georges Brohée Lecture at the World Congress of GastroenterologyPrice: €10,00 |
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Georges Brohée (1887-1957), Belgian surgeon and
radiologist, was the founder of the ‘Société Belge de
Gastro-entérologie’ in 1928 (since 1982 ‘Société Royale
Belge de Gastro-entérologie’) and the ‘Journal belge de
gastro-entérologie’ in 1933 (since 1946 ‘Acta Gastro-
Enterologica Belgica’), of which he was the first Editorin-
Chief till his death in 1957 (1).
Georges Brohée and a group of enterprising gastro -
enterologists organized the First International Congress
of Gastroenterology in Brussels in 1935. Other congresses
followed in Paris (1937), Lausanne (1948), Madrid
(1950), Bologna (1952), Paris (1954) and London
(1956). Here the decision was taken to organize a World
Congress of Gastroenterology (WCG) and to set up a
World Society of Gastroenterology from 1958 on. [Product Details...] |
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