Question 79 · LEK · Gastric acid-reducing drugs
Which of the following is not considered as a complication of the long-term therapy with proton pump inhibitors?
- A. small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO).
- B. intestinal infection with Clostridium difficile.
- C. vitamin B₁₂insufficiency.
- D. gastric lymphoma.
- E. hypomagnesemia.
Hint
Think of the consequences of chronic hypochlorhydria, and of a lymphoma whose main driver is a gastric infection.
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