A strategy for second-line anti-Helicobacter pylori therapy in patients with previously failed treatment

Ohkusa, T.; Watanabe, M.

Nihon Rinsho. Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine 59(2): 323-327

2001


ISSN/ISBN: 0047-1852
PMID: 11218406
Document Number: 539403
Highly effective H. pylori eradication therapies are currently used in Japan. However, eradication failures still appear in a considerable proportion of cases. In such refractory cases, several second-line eradication therapies and therapeutic efficacies have been only exceptionally studied. Our aims were to analyze the reasons and evaluate the second-line therapies when first-line eradication therapies fail. We make a strategy for second-line anti-H. pylori therapy in patients with previously failed treatment.

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