Packet 1: Bonus 16

Long-term use of these medications can cause hypomagnesemia. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this class of medications including omeprazole and pantoprazole. They are given alongside antibiotics and bismuth to treat H. pylori infection.
ANSWER: PPI [or proton pump inhibitor]
[10e] PPIs are used to treat a condition in which hydrochloric acid refluxes into this muscular portion of the GI tract. Barrett’s metaplasia and Mallory–Weiss tears occur in this organ.
ANSWER: esophagus [accept Barrett’s esophagus]
[10h] PPI doses of 2 to 3 times the upper limit are often used to treat this condition, in which a gastrinoma triggers a massive increase in gastric acid secretion.
ANSWER: Zollinger–Ellison syndrome [or ZES]
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