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ArticleWorld journal of gastroenterology2005

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and intestinal metaplasia in subjects who had undergone surgery for gastric adenocarcinoma in Northwest Italy.

Giorgio Palestro, Rinaldo Pellicano, Gian Ruggero Fronda, Guido Valente, Marco De Giuli, Tito Soldati, Agostino Pugliese, Stefano Taraglio, Mauro Garino, Donata Campra and 7 more

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Article in World journal of gastroenterology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Giorgio PalestroDepartment of Oncology, University of Torino, 10126 Torino, Italy.
Rinaldo Pellicano
Gian Ruggero Fronda
Guido Valente
Marco De Giuli
Tito Soldati
Agostino Pugliese
Stefano Taraglio
Mauro Garino
Donata Campra
Miguel Angel Cutufia
Elena Margaria
Giancarlo Spinzi
Aldo Ferrara
Giorgio Marenco
Mario Rizzetto
Antonio Ponzetto
University of Turin · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimTo investigate the seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection and its more virulent strains as well as the correlation with the histologic features among patients who had undergone surgery for gastric cancer (GC).

methodsSamples from 317 (184 males, 133 females, mean age 69+/-3.4 years) consecutive patients who had undergone surgery for gastric non-cardia adenocarcinoma were included in the study. Five hundred and fifty-five (294 males, 261 females, mean age 57.3+/-4.1 years) patients consecutively admitted to the Emergency Care Unit served as control. Histological examination of tumor, lymph nodes and other tissues obtained at the time of surgery represented the diagnostic "gold standard". An enzyme immunosorbent assay was used to detect serum anti-H pylori (IgG) antibodies and Western blotting technique was utilized to search for anti-CagA protein (IgG).

resultsTwo hundred and sixty-one of three hundred and seventeen (82.3%) GC patients and 314/555 (56.5%) controls were seropositive for anti-H pylori (P<0.0001; OR, 3.58; 95%CI, 2.53-5.07). Out of the 317 cases, 267 (84.2%) were seropositive for anti-CagA antibody vs 100 out of 555 (18%) controls (P<0.0001; OR, 24.30; 95%CI, 16.5-35.9). There was no difference between the frequency of H pylori in intestinal type carcinoma (76.2%) and diffuse type cancer (78.8%). Intestinal metaplasia (IM) was more frequent but not significant in the intestinal type cancer (83.4% vs 75.2% in diffuse type and 72.5% in mixed type). Among the patients examined for IM, 39.8% had IM type I, 8.3% type II and 51.9% type III(type III vs others, P = 0.4).

conclusionThis study confirms a high seroprevalence of H pylori infection in patients suffering from gastric adenocarcinoma and provides further evidence that searching for CagA status over H pylori infection might confer additional benefit in identifying populations at greater risk for this tumor.

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Helicobacter pyloriAdenocarcinomaAgedAntibodies, BacterialAntigens, BacterialBacterial ProteinsCase-Control StudiesFemaleHelicobacter InfectionsHumansIntestinesItalyMaleMetaplasiaMiddle AgedSeroepidemiologic StudiesAntibodies, BacterialAntigens, BacterialBacterial ProteinscagA protein, Helicobacter pylori

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PMID16437659
PMCPMC4725078
OpenAlexW330058385

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