helicobacter pylorus (hp) is a common infection in iran. inappropriate laboratory tests for its diagnosis such as serology and irrational drug prescription for hp treatment in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia is a drastic obstacle in our country. treating every patient with dyspepsia without peptic ulcer or precancerous lesions, not only results in high economic burden on health system, but al...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of dyspepsia in the general population aged over 20 in western Iran. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted among the randomly selected general population over the age of 20 years in Sanandaj city. Iran, from April to December 2009. A questionnaire containing demographic, symptoms and history variables was used. Dependent variables were self-repor...

Drug treatment of functional dyspepsia is often unsatisfactory. We assessed the efficacy of a bicarbonate-sulphate-calcium thermal water cycle of 12 days, in patients with functional dyspepsia. Patients with functional dyspepsia were sent by their general practitioners to 12 days of treatment with thermal water, 200-400 ml in the morning, at temperature of 33 degrees C (91.4 F) and were evaluat...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to detect the duodenal enzyme activity in patients of alcohol dependence and to compare with non-alcoholic patients of non-ulcer dyspepsia. METHODS Disaccharidases (lactase, sucrase, maltase) were estimated in 20 non alcoholic patients of non-ulcer dyspepsia and 20 alcoholics admitted to the drug de-addiction and treatment centre of PGIMER, Chandigarh, Indi...

We assessed gastric myoelectric functioning in patients with various gastrointestinal symptoms and to determine the utility of electrogastrography in differentiating specific disease entities. Electrogastrography with a water load was performed in 101 patients with reflux disease, 55 patients with active gastric ulcer, 59 patients with functional dyspepsia, and 30 controls. Upper gastrointestin...

Dyspepsia is common in the general population, and despite a paucity of data, smoking, alcohol, and analgesics are believed to be important risk factors. The role of these environmental factors in subjects with uninvestigated dyspepsia was evaluated in a representative population sample. An age and gender stratified random sample of residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota, aged 20 to 64 years wa...

Sixty nine patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia have been studied with endoscopy, biopsy, quick urease (CLO) test, Helicobacter pylori culture, and the 13C-urea breath test before and after treatment with tripotassium dicitratobismuthane (DeNol) two tablets twice daily for four weeks. Symptoms of non-ulcer dyspepsia were recorded using a standard questionnaire. Using H pylori culture as the gold s...

helicobacter pylori (h.pylori) is an etiologic factor for chronic gastritis and peptic ulcers. serological testing of h.pylori infection is common in iran, as other parts of the world. there are geographical variations in the humoral immune response to various h. pylori strains in different parts of the worl. we studied the immunogenic proteins of h.pylori by means of an immunoblot assay with a...