A man spits up blood and is admitted to the emergency clinic with stomach pains. His doctor suspects an ulcer as a side effect of a drug. In addition to the ulcer, the gastroscopy reveals something else that nobody expected.
Recorded by Anika Geisler and Marie Huber
Many years ago, while on vacation at home, I received a call from a patient. The man sounded completely upset when he reported: He was suffering from severe stomach pains and had just vomited dark blood. I had known the patient and his medical history for a long time and very well. In his mid-fifties, he frequently took diclofenac for his gout attacks.
Gout is a metabolic disease in which the joints become inflamed. If a gout attack occurs in which the joints become very painfully swollen within a very short time, so-called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as diclofenac are suitable for combating the acute joint inflammation.
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