[Helicobacter pylori and upper digestive disease at the Main Hospital of Dakar. Study apropos of 105 consecutive endoscopies]

Dakar Med. 1995;40(2):187-91.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Gastro-duodenal ulcer is a very frequent disease in Senegal and Helicobacter pylori (HP) being an ubiquitarian germ infects people living in developing countries in an over-early way and this most frequently. We have realized a prospective study dealing with 105 adult patients sent to hospital principal's endoscopy center. We were searching for HPs into three different methods which are as follows: using ordinary slats, clo-test, histological process. The results have confirmed the existence of a very high rate of infection due to HP, with among adults living in developing countries: 82% of our study. Likewise 95.8% of our ulcerous and erosive injuries at the bulb and 93.8% ulcerous and erosive gastric attacks were associated to HP infection. Those gastric and bulbar lesions were known to have followed a mild but chronic gastritis.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Africa / epidemiology
  • Developing Countries
  • Duodenal Ulcer / epidemiology
  • Duodenal Ulcer / microbiology*
  • Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / statistics & numerical data
  • France / epidemiology
  • Gastritis / epidemiology
  • Gastritis / microbiology*
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Helicobacter Infections / complications
  • Helicobacter Infections / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Iran / epidemiology
  • Peptic Ulcer / epidemiology
  • Peptic Ulcer / microbiology*
  • Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Prevalence
  • Prospective Studies
  • Senegal / epidemiology
  • Singapore / epidemiology
  • Smoking / epidemiology