Letters
Routine retesting is necessary
BMJ 1996; 312 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7042.1362 (Published 25 May 1996) Cite this as: BMJ 1996;312:1362
- T G Reilly,
- R P Walt
- Clinical research fellow University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH
- Consultant gastroenterologist Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham B9 5SS
EDITOR,—The decision whether to retest for Helicobacter pylori after a course of eradication treatment in peptic ulcer disease depends on the likely outcome. If one expects that the organism will nearly always be killed by a course of such treatment and that there will be few other dyspeptic symptoms not due to ulcer, then arguing against routine retesting makes sense. Perminder S Phull and colleagues adopt just such …
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