Recurrence of infection and diversity of Helicobacter pylori strains in an adult population in Mexico treated with empirical standard triple therapy.

Background: After eradication treatment for Helicobacter pylori, infection could recur due to recrudescence or re-infection. The objective of this study was to determine the recurrence of Helicobacter pylori infection and identify virulent Helicobacter pylori strains one year after eradication with standard triple therapy.

Material And Methods: A quasi-experimental study was performed that included a patient population with digestive diseases associated with Helicobacter pylori who had received standard triple therapy.

Health-related quality of life in adults with irritable bowel syndrome in a Mexican specialist hospital. A cross-sectional study.

Background: Evidence shows the negative impact of irritable bowel syndrome on the quality of life of patients who suffer from the condition as compared to the general population.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the health-related quality of life in adults with irritable bowel syndrome who are receiving treatment at a specialist hospital.

Material And Methods: The study had a cross-sectional prospective design.

Regression of gastric intestinal metaplasia after the eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection in a hospital in Mexico.

Background: Intestinal metaplasia is a precursor lesion of gastric cancer. Infection by Helicobacter pylori is the principal cause of metaplasia. While evidence of the regression of metaplasia after treatment to eradicate this infection has been demonstrated, controversy remains with regard to this subject.

[Concordance among invasive diagnostic procedures for Helicobacter pylori infection in adults].

Objective: Compare the strength of concordance between culture, histology, rapid urease test for diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection and histopathological findings relationship and frequency of positivity among such diagnostic procedures.

Materials And Methods: Diagnostic test study. The study population were subjects with endoscopy and take samples of gastric antral.

Inadequate prescription of chronic consumption of proton pump inhibitors in a hospital in Mexico. Cross-sectional study.

Introduction: PPIs have been an enormous therapeutic advance in acid-related diseases. However, it has been detected an abuse in its consumption. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of inadequate prescription of chronic use of PPIs in outpatients in a speciality hospital.

[Construction of an ultrasound clinical scale for the diagnosis of choledocolithiasis].

Objective: to describe the construction of a clinical ultrasonographic scale for diagnosing choledocholithiasis.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of diagnostic tests, done through files of patients older than 18 years old with diagnosis related to having jaundice, who received care at three hospital facilities in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico from 1998 to 1999, was carried out. Clinical, lab and cabinet data were collected.