Source: DGNews  |  Posted 8 years ago

By Adrian Burton

MADRID, SPAIN -- November 7, 2003 -- Delivering esomeprazole 40 mg either as an injection or as an intravenous infusion is a good short-term alternative to oral administration. This was the finding presented November 4th by researchers from South Africa here at the 11th United European Gastroenterology Week.

Esomeprazole 40 mg taken orally once a day leads to high rates of healing in erosive oesophagitis. "But there are several circumstance when a patient may not be able to swallow, for example in an acute situation like a gastric bleed