[Prévalence de l'infection à Helicobacter pylori et des lésions endoscopiques hautes chez les diabétiques: Etude cas/témoins].

Background: Current data on the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in dyspeptic diabetic patients are contradictory in the literature.

Aim: the aim was to assess the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection, gastroscopic lesions, and gastric histopathological lesions, in dyspeptic diabetic patients.

Methods: It was a case-control study collecting 394 dyspeptic patients (194 diabetic and 200 nondiabetic patients).

Suspected azathioprine induced liver cirrhosis: an unusual side effect.

In recent years, the hepatotoxic potential of thiopurines, in particular 6-thioguanine (6-TG) has been discussed in literature. However, cirrhosis was exceptionally reported. We report the case of a 56-year-old woman with ileocaecal Crohn's disease treated with azathioprine.

Sclerosing Cholangitis in Behçet's Disease.

Introduction. Sclerosing cholangitis is characterized by an inflammatory and fibrotic lesion of intra- and/or extrahepatic bile ducts. When a causal mechanism of a bile duct lesion is identified, the sclerosing cholangitis is considered secondary.

[Hepatic steatosis in chronic hepatitis B: prevalence, risk factors, and impact on fibrosis and therapeutic response].

Background: steatosis is a common injury in chronic hepatitis C, but this association has not been sufficiently studied in chronic hepatitis B. aim: To evaluate the prevalence of hepatic steatosis in chronic hepatitis B and determine its association with various histologic, biochemical, virological, and metabolic diseases, and its effect on fibrosis and therapeutic response.

Methods: Our study was compiled 133 patients with chronic hepatitis B who received no antiviral therapy and who had a liver biopsy.