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BORCHARDT'S TRIAD

Seen in Gastric Volvulus

1.Acute epigastric pain
2.Violent ineffective vomiting
3.Inability to pass a nasogastric tube

Gastric volvulus or volvulus of stomach is a twisting of all or part of the stomach by more than 180 degrees with obstruction of the flow of material through the stomach, variable loss of blood supply and possible tissue death. The twisting can occur around the long axis of the stomach: this is called organoaxial or around the axis perpendicular to this, called mesenteroaxial. Obstruction is more likely in organoaxial twisting than with mesenteroaxial while the latter is more associated with ischemia . About one third of the cases are associated with a hiatus hernia. Treatment is surgical.

Helicobacter pylori

Helicobacter pylori, previously Campylobacter pylori, is a gram negative, microaerophilic bacterium found usually in the stomach. It was identified in 1982 by Australian scientists Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, who found that it was present in a person with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcers, conditions not previously believed to have a microbial cause. It is also linked to the development of duodenal ulcers and stomach cancer. However, over 80% of individuals infected with the bacterium are asymptomatic, and it may play an important role in the natural stomach ecology.

More than 50% of the world's population harbor H. pylori in their upper gastrointestinal tract. Infection is more prevalent in developing countries, and incidence is decreasing in Western countries. H. pylori'shelical shape (from which the genus name is derived) is thought to have evolved to penetrate the mucoid lining of the stomach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori?wprov=sfla1

HELICOBACTER PYLORI is the most common bacterial infection in the world

Sebaceous cyst is never seen in palm and soles, since they lack sebaceous glands !