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.