To assess the successes of the leprosy elimination strategy before (2000 to 2005) and after (2006 to 2010) eradication period in referral hospital of Tamilnadu District. Retrospective cross-sectional study of all registered new cases of leprosy carried out from records over a ten year period from referral Sacred heart leprosy hospital, Kummbakkonam, Tamil Nadu. During the survey, total number o...

BACKGROUND Pretreatment with a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) reportedly decreases the efficacy of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication, however, the effect of pretreatment with an H2 receptor antagonist (H2RA) on H. pylori eradication has not yet been studied. We compared the efficacy of eradication regimen (lansoprazole/amoxicillin/clarithromycin) in patients with H. pylori infection with...

back ground and amis: among the patients who go to physicians, especially to gastroentero logists, a great number consists of the onse suffering upper gi diseases, particularly peptic ulcer disease (pud) which,â  in addition to creating much pain and lowering the quality of life causes a great morbidity and â mortality. so it seems necessary to be cured.â according to the lastâ  researchesâ  th...

background and purpose: successful treatment of helicobacter pylori infection causes not only eradication of pathogen, but also prevents the associated diseases such as peptic ulcer, gastric carcinoma and lymphoma. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of 7 days triple therapy as a lowest drug resistance, shortest duration and fewer numbers of drugs in children. materials and metho...

the prevalence of helicobacter pylori infection and the effect of its eradication on platelet count in 95 iranian patients with chronic refractory autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (critp) was investigated. 69 of 95 patients were infected with h.pylori (72.6%). h.pylori eradication was obtained in 69 infected critp pa tients who were not in remission and had platelet count below 100×109 at th...

aim : to evaluate the diagnostic value of helicobacter pylori stool antigen test before and after eradication background : there are different methods for diagnosis and follow up of helicobacter pylori infection, including invasive methods done with endoscopy and non invasive ones such as ubt and urine analysis antibody. one of non invasive new methods is analysis of helicobacter pylori stool a...

PURPOSE The importance of Helicobacter pylori eradication after endoscopic resection (ER) of gastric neoplasms remains controversial. In this study, we clarified the importance of H. pylori eradication for metachronous lesions after ER. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 3,882 patients with gastric neoplasms who underwent ER. We included patients infected with H. pylori who received er...

background: helicobacter pylori is a major cause of diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract. having considered the high prevalence of the infection, an ideal regimen has been a matter of debate by the scientists for many years. this study evaluates the efficacy of the more tolerable regimens in the eradication of the bacteria and the effect of the treatment on the gastric symptoms. methods...

With this prospective observational follow-up study of 165 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-positive individuals (23 health care workers and 142 patients), we determined that our MRSA eradication therapy protocol results in a high success rate (81%). Five or more negative culture sets give a predictive value for MRSA eradication therapy success of >90%. Furthermore, MRSA colon...