Comparing the Efficacy of Reverse Hybrid Therapy and Bismuth Quadruple Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Reverse hybrid therapy achieves a higher eradication rate than bismuth quadruple therapy remained unanswered.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital.
• Treatments: Amoxicillin; Bismuth; Bismuth tripotassium dicitrate; Clarithromycin; Metronidazole; Pantoprazole; Tetracycline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Consecutive H pylori-infected outpatients, at least 20 years of age, with endoscopically proven peptic ulcer diseases or gastritis

Exclusion Criteria:

• previous H pylori-eradication therapy

• ingestion of antibiotics or bismuth within the prior 4 weeks

• patients with allergic history to the medications used

• patients with previous gastric surgery

• the coexistence of serious concomitant illness (for example, decompensated liver cirrhosis, uremia)

• pregnant women