High incidence of autoimmune gastritis in patients misdiagnosed with two or more failures of H. pylori eradication.

Takahisa FurutaS BabaM YamadeT UotaniT KagamiT SuzukiS TaniY HamayaM IwaizumiS OsawaK Sugimoto

Published in: Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics (2018)

AIG patients were often misdiagnosed as refractory to eradication therapy, probably because achlorhydria in AIG might allow urease-positive bacteria other than H. pylori to colonise the stomach, causing positive 13 C-UBT results.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
helicobacter pylori infection
prognostic factors
helicobacter pylori
peritoneal dialysis
stem cells
risk factors
patient reported outcomes
cell therapy
patient reported