Background: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use and H pylori infection are two major causes of peptic ulcers. This study investigates the effect of H pylori infection and NSAIDs on gastroduodenal damages and bleeding (GIB). Methods: 104 patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) and 102 patients with dyspepsia without bleeding were studied. Duodenal (DU) and gastric ulcers...

background although infection with helicobacter pylori is a global health problem, its prevalence is different among countries. serologic tests for the diagnosis of h. pylori infection are limited by low accuracy rates and lack of validation. recent studies indicate that the stool antigen test has an acceptable level of accuracy. objectives our objective was to investigate the prevalence of h. ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : this study was conducted to investigate a possible association between h. pylori infection and csr. background : helicobacter pylori infection is one of the most common infections worldwide. central serous chorioretinopathy (csr) is a ser i ous macular detachment that usually affects young people. the etiopathogenesi...

background: helicobacter pylori is the most common cause of chronic infection in the human stomach. the infection has universe prevalence in all age groups. probably, this bacterium is the cause of most common chronic bacterial infection in human beings and infects approximately half of the world population. h. pylori produces urease, an enzyme that degrades the urea in the stomach’s mucous to ...

conclusions about 90% of h. pylori strains potentially contained vaca s2m2 and s1m2 genotypes. infection with h. pylori strain containing the caga gene or the vaca s1m1 and s1m2 genotypes was associated with increased incidence of peptic ulcer disease (pud). objectives the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of two toxins and genotypes of vaca toxin in patients referred to a centra...

The aims of this study were to detect Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) by culture, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and histopathological methods, to determine the prevalence of active H. pylori infection in Elazig Province, East of Turkey and to evaluate the relationship between H. pylori infection and sex. Antrum and corpus samples of 184 Turkish patients (85 male and 99 female, age range 17 to...