Analyzes for a stomach ulcer are prescribed by a doctor. The gastroenterologist, on the basis of the clinical picture of the disease and the age of the patient, decides whether to conduct a narrow laboratory examination or the patient needs an extended diagnosis.
If the ulcer has become aggravated, the blood taken for the diagnosis of its composition is an obligatory clinical study to be prescribed first.
The blood test for gastric ulcer is informative enough and can refute or confirm the alleged health problems.
Analysis for hemoglobin
Hemoglobin is a protein that delivers oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body and returns carbon dioxide back to the lungs.
Hemoglobin in gastric ulcer is an important diagnostic factor that can indicate many complications. For example, to lower the hemoglobin index can:
1 .Stenosis of the gatekeeper, characterized by anemia, a decrease in the total protein in the bloodstream and an increase in the level of the non-specific indicator of erythrocyte sedimentation rate( ESR);
2 .Blood with a stomach ulcer can be the first bell to alert the malignancy process. Cancer is often manifested by a decrease in hemoglobin and an increase in the level of ESR;
3 .In the case of acute blood loss during perforation of the walls of the stomach, the following blood test results will be indicated: a decrease in hemoglobin, an increase in the concentration of gamma globulins, bilirubin, a decrease in the rate of ESR in the blood, leukocytosis manifested in conjunction with granulosis in neutrophils.
4 .With the diagnosis of gastric ulcer, blood with a slight lymphocytosis without deviations in the number of leukocytes and hemoglobin level will confirm that the disease proceeds in an uncomplicated mild form.
What tests for peptic ulcer should be taken?
- Blood and urine analysis( urine samples rarely show abnormalities);
- Feces for the maintenance of the latent blood allows to exclude internal bleeding.
- X-ray confirms signs of peptic ulcer, diagnosing depressions in the mucous membranes of the organ.
- Endoscopy of the stomach reveals the disease at an early stage of development and accurately diagnoses the localization of ulceration, size, depth, shape of the defect. The diagnostic method really assesses the changes that have occurred on the mucous walls of the organ, the condition of the edges and bottom. Biopsy of tissues( histology).Investigating at the cellular level the composition of the gastric tissue taken at the endoscopic examination, the doctor can exclude or confirm the malignancy of the formation.
- Primary assays for gastric ulcer necessarily include a laboratory study of the mucosal wall of the organ of Helicobacter pylori bacteria, which provoke the disease.
- In case of a complicated course of the disease with frequent relapses, the patient is assigned additional studies: electrogastroenterography, anthroduodenal manometry, which investigate the motility of the upper gastrointestinal tract, and a method for detecting the acid formation of the stomach.