TNFα in blood serum as a criterion of efficiency of stomach and duoenal ulcer's treatment in advanced age
We found that at patients with stomach and duodenal ulcer the tumor necrosis factor-alpha level exceeded normal rate three times before treatment, returned to normal rate after 2 weeks treatment and was kept at this level within 6 weeks. Serum tumor necrosis factor-alpha level may be used in practice of gerentology as a high informative criterion of efficiency of stomach and duodenal ulcer's treatment, particularly in differentiative diagnosis of the two studiess of remission: (a) clinical and endoscopic remission and (b) true remission.