Correspondence to: Battal Altun Department of Internal Medicine, Kasımpasa Military Hospital, Yesilkoy, Istanbul 34149, Turkey Tel: +90-5415429657, E-mail: [email protected] Received on November 30, 2014. Revised on January 6, 2015. Accepted on January 7, 2015. Published online June 19, 2015 pISSN 1976-2283 eISSN 2005-1212 http://dx.doi.org/10.5009/gnl14469 To the Editor: We read the articl...

childrenwith helicobacter infection need treatment. the aim of treatment is elimination of h.pylori. most patients with this infection are asymptomatic and without peptic disease. treatment and management of these patients are controversy. conventional treatment: the best treatment for h. pylori eradication regimens should have cure rates of at least 80%, be without major side effects, and indu...

BACKGROUND Lactobacillus- and Bifidobacterium-containing yogurt (AB-yogurt) can suppress Helicobacter pylori. Improvement of the eradication rate by quadruple therapy of residual H. pylori after failed triple therapy is needed. OBJECTIVE We tested whether prior treatment with AB-yogurt improved the efficacy of quadruple therapy in eradicating residual H. pylori after failed triple therapy. ...

Although the currently most effective treatment regimens cure about 90% of infections, 10% of patients remain Helicobacter pylori positive. Several factors contribute to treatment failure. These include patient compliance, bacterial resistance to antibiotics, and treatment related issues. Treatment failure leads to the development of bacterial resistance to metronidazole and clarithromycin. Ret...

BACKGROUND H. pylori eradication is usually performed with three or four drugs for at least seven days. Recently four reports have shown a cure rate of approximately 90% using a four-day quadruple therapy. The objectives of this prospective study were: 1) to evaluate the efficacy of pantoprazole-based quadruple therapy, and 2) to compare the efficacy and tolerability of four-day with seven-day ...

Childrenwith Helicobacter infection need treatment. The aim of treatment is elimination of H.Pylori. Most patients with this infection are asymptomatic and without peptic disease. Treatment and management of these patients are controversy. Conventional Treatment: The best treatment for H. pylori eradication regimens should have cure rates of at least 80%, be without major side effects, and indu...

BACKGROUND The success rates of therapies for treating Helicobacter pylori vary greatly worldwide and the ideal treatment has yet to be clearly established. AIMS A systematic review was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of current first and second-line therapies in treating H.pylori infection. METHODS Two researchers independently carried out Internet search engine reviews (PUBMED, ...

eradication rate of helicobacter pylori using furazolidone (fur) versus clarithromycin (cla) in two weeks quadruple therapy in du patients

Copyright © 2013 P.-I Hsu and N.-J. Peng. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. As a general rule for the treatment of infectious diseases, clinicians should prescribe anti-H. pylori regimens that have a per-protocol erad...