Correlación del helicobacter pylori con dispesia funcional en mayores de 18 años: servicio de gastroenterología, Clínica Eespaña, octubre 2002-junio del 2004

Abstract

In order to determine in patients with HP degree of dyspepsia compared with those without infection. Methods: Case-control in 174 patients over 18 years, presenting to the Clinic of Gastroenterology in Spain. Dyspepsia was defined according to the Rome Consensus II. The cases are 87 patients diagnosed by endoscopy ruled peptic ulcer, gastric cancer, esophagitis, constituting as functional dyspepsia, which had positive urease test. The controls constituted patients with functional dyspepsia after endoscopy and urease test-negative. Dyspepsia degree was determined by the presence of key symptoms. Symptoms were rated. Conclusion: HP infection seems to have no role in functional dyspepsia (There is no strong association between HP and this) But the evidence is insufficient to confirm or disprove the existence of a modest association