Does delayed gastric emptying shorten the H pylori eradication period? A double blind clinical trial.

Aim: To evaluate the gastric emptying inhibitory effects of sugar and levodopa on H pylori eradication period.

Methods: A total of 139 consecutive patients were randomized into 6 groups. The participants with peptic ulcer disease or non-ulcer dyspepsia non-responding to other medications who were also H pylori-positive patients either with positive rapid urease test (RUT) or positive histology were included.

Analysis of patients listed for liver transplantation in Shiraz, Iran.

Aim: To analyze records of patients listed for liver transplantation (LT) at our hospital, the first and the largest LT center in Iran.

Methods: We analyzed medical records of patients aged 14 years or older, who were listed for LT for chronic liver disease between 1994 and 2004. Outcome was determined from records or follow-up data.

Efficacy of saccharomyces boulardii with antibiotics in acute amoebiasis.

Aim: To compare the efficacy of antibiotics therapy alone with antibiotics and saccharomyces boulardii in treatment of acute amebiasis.

Methods: In a double blind, random clinical trial on patients with acute intestinal amoebiasis, 57 adult patients with acute amoebiasis, diagnosed with clinical manifestations (acute mucous bloody diarrhea) and amebic trophozoites engulfing RBCs found in stool were enrolled in the study. Regimen 1 included metronidazole (750 mg Tid) and iodoquinol (630 mg Tid) for 10 days.