BACKGROUND Triple therapy including a proton pump inhibitor, clarithromycin, and amoxicillin (PPI-CA) is the first-choice treatment used for H. pylori eradication. The efficacy of this treatment is declining of late, and alternative therapies are currently under evaluation. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy, safety and compliance of a triple therapy with a PPI, amoxicillin and levofloxacin ...

There is no easy and reliable test universally accepted in clinical practice to measure fat digestion. Fat balance studies are insensitive and unpleasant for regular clinical assessment, direct measures of pancreatic function are impractical for repeated use, the “steatocrit” method is not quantitative; tubeless tests have not proved to be eVective substitutes; and clinical measures, such as st...

o bjectives: gastric infection with helicobacter pylori may be one of the main causes of halitosis. this study was performed to evaluate the relationship of heli- cobacter pylori infection with halitosis. materials and methods : this case control study was performed on 44 dyspeptic patients with a mean age of 34.29±13.71 years (range 17 to 76 years). the case group included 22 patients with hal...

Aims. To investigate H. pylori infection rate and evaluate a combined set of tests for H. pylori diagnosis in Vietnamese patients with acute peptic ulcer bleeding (PUD). Methods. Consecutive patients with acute PUB were enrolled prospectively. Rapid urease test (RUT) with 3 biopsies was carried out randomly. Patients without RUT or with negative RUT received urea breath test (UBT) and serologic...

BACKGROUND The current, arbitrarily defined gold standard for the diagnosis of H. pylori infection requires histologic examination of two specially stained antral biopsy specimens. However, routine histology is potentially limited in general clinical practice by both sampling and observer error. The current study was designed to examine the diagnostic performance of invasive and non-invasive H....

Although scintigraphy, a non-invasive procedure, is usually considered to be the reference technique for measuring gastric emptying in humans, several drawbacks limit its application in routine practice. Expensive equipment is required and access to a nuclear medicine department, and the use of radioactive isotopes (generally Tc and In) can produce low but significant irradiation. It is diYcult...

Purpose of research. Assessment the population prevalence Helicobacter pylori infection and effectiveness eradication therapy by analyzing results 13 C-urease breath test ( C-UBT) surveyed patients who applied for to nationwide network medical offices INVITRO laboratory in 2019-2020. Materials methods. C-UBT was performed using C-UREA TEST kits IR spectrometer IRIS° - Doc, Kibion AB, Sweden. A ...

PURPOSE To assess gastric pH and its relationship with urease-test positivity and histological findings in children with Helicobacter pylori infection. METHODS Fasting gastric juices and endoscopic antral biopsy specimens were collected from 562 children and subjected to the urease test and histopathological examination. The subjects were divided into 3 age groups: 0-4, 5-9, and 10-15 years. ...

Aim : bring to the attention of practitioners indications for anti-Helicobacter therapy, methods and procedure diagnostics eradication therapy Н . pylori infection. Key points Chronic gastritis caused by infection, including asymptomatic persons, may be considered as an indication Н. etiological opportunistic screening gastric cancer prevention. Indications, obligatory include peptic ulcer, MAL...