Peptic Ulcer Disease Symptom
Common Peptic Ulcer Disease Symptoms
Pain
Epigastric pain (dyspepsia), is present in 80-90% of patients. However, this complaint is not sensitive nor specific enough to serve as a reliable diagnostic criterion for peptic ulcer disease. The clinical history cannot distinguish duodenal from gastric ulcers accurately. Less than 1/4 of patients with dyspepsia have ulcer disease at endoscopy. In patients with NSAID-induced ulcers, up to half are asymptomatic.