Background and Aim: The current diagnostic methods for detecting Helicobacter pylori infection include rapid urease test (RUT), urea breath test (UBT), histology, culture, and serum antibody detection ...

There is general agreement that H. pylori infection is closely associated with chronic gastritic conditions, including intestinal metaplasia, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. Several methods for ...

The success of eradication therapy for Helicobacter pylori infection is usually determined by noninvasive tests; however, sometimes these tests are not possible and an invasive test is required such ...

2nd Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland Department of Endoscopy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland Internal Diseases and ...

In real-world settings, many patients cannot or do not stop proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) due to symptoms, but guidelines do not address H. pylori testing in PPI users. We compared the rapid urease ...

Upper-gastrointestinal endoscopies with biopsies were performed on 35 patients, and samples of gastric juice were obtained from the antrum and corpus. In total, 25 patients were hypochlorhydric and 10 ...