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More research into maintenance therapy is clearly required, because the relative long-term efficacy of different treatments, particularly the combination of PPIs with antibiotics, and the effect of dose variation on the relapse and complications from gastric ulcers is not well studied.
In contrast, by the end of the trial the ulcers were healed in at least two-thirds of the patients receiving proton pump inhibitors (67%).
Other clinical applications of laser Doppler imaging to the measurement of cutaneous blood flow include the effects of postural changes in blood flow in venous leg ulcers [ 20], the assessment of digital perfusion following arterial repair [ 21], skin perfusion overlying benign and malignant breast disease [ 36] and the effect of prostaglandins on ischaemic ulcers [ 37].
Whilst higher healing rates were observed after treatment with ranitidine by the end of the trials the ulcers remained for at least half the patients (52%).
Some authors have also argued that the classification of gastric and duodenal ulcers is artificial, since ulcers could be driven distally or drawn proximally across the arbitrary boundary of the pylorus [ 32 ] . Furthermore, some clinical assessments may be complicated as 10-20% of patients with gastric ulcers also have duodenal ulcers.