Testing to check success of treatment to eradicate H pylori

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P S Phull, Senior registrar,
M R Jacyna, Consultant gastroenterologist

Gastrointestinal Unit, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen AB9 2ZB
Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospitals, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ

EDITOR,—Two letters1 comment on our paper assessing the use of dyspeptic symptoms as a test for eradication of Helicobacter pylori2 and cite work that is supposedly at variance with our results.3 4 The authors fail, however, to appreciate important differences between these studies and our paper. Both of the quoted studies investigated patients with duodenal and gastric ulceration,3 4 whereas we studied only patients with uncomplicated duodenal ulceration. Patients with haemorrhage and perforation were included in one of …