conclusions considering the results of this study, although having h. pylori infection in ra patients was accompanied with higher number of inflamed and tender joints, but h. pylori eradication did not improve patients’ clinical symptoms and laboratory tests. it seems that the effect of h. pylori infection eradication over disease activity in ra patients is not remarkable, if it does exist at a...

BACKGROUND & AIM The role that H. pylori infection plays in the development of and Barrett's esophagus (BE) is uncertain. We tested the hypothesis that infection with cagA+ Helicobacter pylori strains protects against the development of BE. METHODS We studied 104 consecutive patients, residents in an area with a high prevalence of H. pylori infection, with BE and 213 sex- and age-matched cont...

Infection with Helicobacter pylori (HP) is the most prevalent infection worldwide, particularly in underdeveloped nations. It reported to be associated many extra gastrointestinal manifestations.

OBJECTIVE To determine the association of Helicobacter pylori infection in patients presenting with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). METHODS From March 2007 to March 2008, thirty adult patients with ITP and 30 age and sex matched healthy controls were investigated for the presence of H. pylori infection by Helicobacter pylori stool antigen (HpSA) an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) based me...

The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection varies between different geographic locations. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of H. pylori infection in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and to describe the association of H. pylori infection with demographic data, clinical diagnosis, and previous histories of patients. The study was carried out at the ga...

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 ...

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is associated with several disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, including gastric cancer. Studies ours and others suggest that H. may affect melatonin synthesis in epithelial cells. On other hand, ameliorates as shown clinical trials experimental studies. Moreover, not only suppresses DNA-damaging reaction diet-related mutagens can initiate carcinog...

<i>Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)</i>-negative gastric cancer is diagnosed when malignancies are found in patients <i>H. pylori</i>-naïve stomachs. There four types of noncardiac pylori</i>-negative cancers. The signet ring cell-type poorly cohesive carcinoma most common, followed by the chief cell-predominant type adenocarcinoma fundic gland. Extremely well-diffe...

BACKGROUND/AIMS There have been controversial reports linking Helicobacter pylori infection to autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD). However, data regarding the relationship are limited for Asian populations, which have an extremely high prevalence of H. pylori infection. We performed this study to investigate the association between H. pylori infection and AITD in Koreans. METHODS This study in...