Publication: Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcer diseases: prevalence and association with antral gastritis in 210 patients.
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1992-07-01
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01252208
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Mahidol University
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Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand. Vol.75, No.7 (1992), 386-392
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U. Kachintorn, P. Luengrojanakul, K. Atisook, C. Theerabutra, T. Tanwandee, S. Boonyapisit, O. Chinapak Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcer diseases: prevalence and association with antral gastritis in 210 patients.. Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand. Vol.75, No.7 (1992), 386-392. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/22385
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Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcer diseases: prevalence and association with antral gastritis in 210 patients.
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Evidence is accumulating that Helicobacter pylori infection plays a major contributory role in peptic ulcer disease [Duodenal Ulcer (DU) and Gastric ulcer (GU)] and non-ulcer dyspepsia (NUD). We, therefore, studied prospectively 210 consecutive patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms (62 DU, 38 GU and 110 NUD) to determine the prevalence of H. pylori infection and to investigate their association with histological gastritis. Using endoscopic biopsy of the gastric antrum for diagnosing H. pylori infection by Campylobacter-like Organism (CLO) test, histology or bacteriology, the overall prevalence of H. pylori was 63.3 per cent. When H. pylori infection was related to diagnosis, DU had the highest prevalence rate of H. pylori infection (66%), GU and NUD were less frequently associated with H. pylori infection (55% and 44% respectively). We found a close association between H. pylori infection and histologically antral gastritis, in that 72.7, 61.7, and 62.6 per cent of the DU, GU and NUD patients with antral gastritis (respectively) had H. pylori infection. In contrast, none of these patients seen with normal antrum had H. pylori infection. We also found that the prevalence of H. pylori in our patient series was not age related. Of the three procedures used to demonstrate H. pylori, the CLO test and histological staining method gave the highest yields of 84.9 and 79.6 per cent respectively, and bacteriology in only 44.3 per cent, we conclude that the prevalence of H. pylori infection in Thai patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms is high. H. pylori infection commonly occurs in the patients with antral gastritis, suggesting a possible etiologic role for the bacterium in the histologic lesion.