Triple therapy with ecabet sodium, amoxicillin and lansoprazole for 2 weeks as the rescue regimen for H. pylori infection.

Background/aim: Ecabet sodium has an anti-H. pylori effect. We assessed the efficacy of ecabet sodium in the rescue therapy for the eradication of H.

[Vitamin D and its analogs in the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism (2nd HPT) associated with end stage renal disease (ESRD)].

Management of 2nd HPT in ESRD patients consists of administration of vitamin D (VD) and phosphate control. VD possesses not only suppressive effect on parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion via increase in serum calcium, but also shows direct suppressive action on transcription of PTH mRNA and parathyroid cell growth, especially in high dose intermittent administratin (pulse therapy). However, hypercalcemia, a major side effect of VD pulse therapy, have limited the effective usage of VD, especially in patients with severe hyperparathyroidism.

The influence of feeding on gastric acid suppression in Helicobacter pylori-positive patients treated with a proton pump inhibitor or an H2-receptor antagonist after bleeding from a gastric ulcer.

Background: This study investigated the influence of feeding on gastric acid suppression in Helicobacter pylori-positive patients treated with intravenous infusions of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) or with H2-receptor antagonists (H2-RAs) after bleeding from a gastric ulcer.

Methods: Forty-nine H. pylori-positive patients with bleeding gastric ulcers (44 men and 5 women) were divided into four groups: one group received an H2-RA while fasting, one group received an H2-RA while eating regularly, one group received a PPI while fasting, and one group received a PPI while eating regularly.

[Chemotherapy of gastric cancer--a review of clinical trials in Japan].

This review focused on the clinical trials in patients with gastric cancer in Japan. Oral fluoropyrimidines have been extensively used in Japan. Through the decades, these oral fluoropyrimidines have been examined in a variety of combinations.