High prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in Behcet’s disease

BMC Gastroenterology

Research Article

Mohammad Reza Ravanbod¹  Kamran B Lankarani²  Elham Aflaki³  Mohammad Ali Nazarinia³  Akbar Rajaee³ 

[1] Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran;Health policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 71345–1414, Shiraz, Iran;Rheumatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran;

关键词: Helicobacter pylori;    Behcet’s disease;    Pathogenesis;    Urea breath test;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-230X-14-58

 received in 2013-07-20, accepted in 2014-03-12,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundBehcet’s disease (BD) is a multisystem disease of unknown etiology. There are several clues which may indicate an ethiopathogenesis role for Helicobacter pylori infection in this disease.MethodsIn a case control study in an out patient department, 48 patients with BD were compared to age, sex matched controls regarding presence of H. pylori infection by serology and urea breath test (UBT).ResultsOngoing H. pylori infection was more prevalent among patients with BD using result of UBT with odds ratio of 3.1 (95% CI: 1.34 – 7.26, PV < 0.001).ConclusionH. pylori infection may have a role in the pathogenesis of BD.

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