Thursday, July 10, 2008

Stem cell treatment warning

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A company operating out of South Africa is charging tens of thousands of pounds for stem cell treatments, using cells that should not be injected into people, putting the lives of their vulnerable and chronically ill patients at risk, BBC TWO's Newsnight programme has uncovered.

The company, called Advanced Cell Therapeutics (ACT), has been buying cord blood stem cells from California, storing them in the UK as a staging post, then shipping them to clinics in Europe and Africa where doctors inject them into their patients.

ACT claims the cells have a beneficial effect for a host of diseases and conditions from spinal cord injury, lung cancer, deafness and HIV/AIDS. But the majority of their patients come from the UK, seeking help for multiple sclerosis.

Biomark

Newsnight has spoken to former ACT employees, and established that the two individuals behind the company, Stephen Van Rooyen and Laura Brown, are the same people being pursued by the FBI for an alleged fraudulent stem cell business in the United States, run via a company called Biomark. The pair are living in South Africa, operating under various aliases, and face an extradition hearing by US authorities on 5 September, 2006.

At a clinic in Rotterdam, run by a doctor called Robert Trossel, who administers stem cells on behalf of ACT, Newsnight filmed a vial of cord blood stem cells about to be injected into a two-year old boy. His mother had travelled from Australia under the impression that the treatment might ease the severe after-effects of a meningitis infection in her son, Ethan Regan. The vial was labelled AllCells - a company based in California.

Legal action

The general manager of AllCells, Jay Tong, told Newsnight he was shocked that his cells were being injected into people. He made clear, as does the company's website, that the cells are intended only for research purposes. They are not guaranteed free from bacterial and viral contamination to the standard that would allow them to be used even in animal models, let alone people. He asked "has anyone died?"

When we put our findings to Dr Trossel, he said: "When confronted with the evidence yesterday, ACT admitted incorrect product delivery on this occasion. We are taking legal action against them and have cancelled all ACT patients until further notice."

Potential health risks

In Cape Town, Newsnight interviewed two former ACT employees, and spoke to Dr Catherine Orridge, who was the medical director of ACT until she became suspicious of the source of the stem cells and found out for herself where they were coming from.

Like Newsnight, she saw the AllCells name on a vial, contacted the company and was devastated to discover that the cells should be used for research purposes only. She is anxious about potential health risks to patients posed by the cells because they contain animal protein. Patients are not told this, so are put at risk of an allergic reaction - including anaphylactic shock, which can be fatal, she says.

Stem cell scientists see enormous potential benefit for medicine from stem cells in the future. But they say it is simply a false hope to use cord blood stem cells in the vast majority of the range of conditions ACT claims.

Professor Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical Research Council told Newsnight:

"I'm shocked. I am taking what you tell me as true, and my first concern is for the patients, very vulnerable, obviously desperate for treatments and that desperation is being exploited by charlatans it seems to me."

UK role

Newsnight has also uncovered that the UK has been performing a vital role in ACT's business. A company called CryoStore was holding the frozen stem cells in its Greenwich warehouse.

CryoStore's manager, Malcolm Wilkinson, said in a statement:

"We were advised by ACT that the material was for research purposes. We were not aware of what form this research took."

He said he was seeking advice from the UK's Human Tissue Authority (HTA). When we informed him of the FBI's interest in the individuals behind ACT (known to him as Biomark) he told us he had severed his links with them. He sent ACT's stem cells to another storage facility in the UK and informed the HTA. When we told him our findings he confirmed that that all the material he had held for ACT was from AllCells…

The stem cells are now being stored at Thermo Electron Biorepository Services in Hertfordshire, who say they will probably not continue to store them. They are waiting for written confirmation of what the company in South Africa they've been dealing with, BioCell, has told them verbally - namely that the material is for research purposes only.

"We wouldn't want to condone any unethical treatment," head of operations Robert Jones told us. "Injecting into people would be a clinical purpose, not research."

The HTA said it's done everything it can within the limits of current legislation to advise them about the wisdom of storing cells if they know they are intended for use in people when they are not fit for that purpose.

Consent form

Newsnight has spoken to Stephen Van Rooyen, who has so far declined our offer of an interview on camera and has not confirmed or denied that ACT's stem cells come from AllCells.

He has pointed out that ACT's patients sign a consent form in which they are told about the risk of an allergic reaction. But that form does not mention animal protein.

When we asked him if his cells come from AllCells, Mr Van Rooyen said:

"I'm sure you understand where I'm coming from here. This is a highly sensitive business, the number of companies around the world that have the technology to produce this kind of cell is very limited and by us going out on the BBC and explaining where our source is is equivalent to commercial suicide. Every single company, individual, doctor, would then be able to go directly to the source."

"In terms of patients having an issue with the safety of the cells and their origin. The most important thing there is that the cells are supported with a certificate of analysis provided to the doctors. The doctors review that. We have a five year track record with not a single negative side effect and the vast majority of people having benefited. That surely matters more than anything. We're not talking about people with minor conditions. We're talking about people who have been sent home to die."

Newsnight contacted Ethan Regan's mother, Sybil, and told her about the origin of the stem cells used in her son's £13,000 injection. She said she was:

"Really disappointed, deceived, duped. What can I say? There are a lot of colourful words I can use but I am not going to. I am really disappointed if the allegations I have heard are true, then it's not fair… the financial perspective doesn't concern me but from a health point of view for Ethan it really does."

Susan Watts' report was shown on Newsnight on Tuesday, 29 August, 2006.



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Sunday, July 06, 2008

Cephalosporin chemical reactivity

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Conclusion


The inherent chemical reactivity of cephalosporins implies that the opening of the β-lactam ring by nucleophilic reagents generates an intermediate cephalosporoyl which is chemically unstable and that suffers multiple fragmentation reactions. Despite the structural similarities with penicillins, those cephalosporins that have a good R2 leaving group undergo the process of expulsion when they conjugate to carrier proteins by opening of the β-lactam ring. For these cephalosporins the unstable dihydrothiazine moiety is enough to undergo further degradation processes. As a result, conjugation of cephalosporins by the β-lactam ring leads to loss of the R2 side chain and to fractionation of the dihydrothiazine ring and this does not form part of the epitope presented in the hapten-carrier conjugate. Only the R1 side chain and a fragment of the β-lactam ring remain bound to the carrier protein, constituting the epitope resulting from these conjugates. The presence of an R2 side chain that may act as a good leaving group is closely related to enhanced reactivity of the β-lactam ring for nucleophilic attack. The effect of the R2 side chain on the conjugation of the carrier protein can be interpreted only from a kinetic perspective, such that an increase in the capacity of the R2 as a leaving group results in increased reactivity for the attack of nucleophiles to the β-lactam ring, increasing the facility and kinetics of the conjugation process.  Printer- Friendly Email ThisAcknowledgements

We thank Ian Johnston for the English version of the manuscript.Funding Information

Supported by grants from Ministerio de Sanidad (FIS PI02/0666, PI03/1165), Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (BQU 2001/3624) and Plan Andaluz de Investigacion Junda de AndaluciaAbbreviation Notes

RAST = radioallergosorbent test.Reprint Address

Correspondence to Ezequiel Perez-Inestrosa, Organic Chemistry, University of Malaga, 29071 Malaga, Spain E-mail: inestrosa@uma.es

Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol.  2005;5(4):323-330.  ©2005 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Probiotics in Controlling Gastric Colonization by H pylori?

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Anti-inflammatory Properties of Probiotic Strains


As described previously, L. acidophilus LB and L. johnsonii La1 decrease gastric inflammation in colonized animals.[30,32] This was also observed with other probiotic strains: L. salivarius WB1004 (108 CFU/mL) was able to displace H. pylori adhering to the MKN45 cell line and to exert an anti-inflammatory effect by decreasing dose dependently the release by these cells of IL-8.[33] Therefore, this same probiotic strain was used to evaluate its preventive effect in gnotobiotic BALB/c mice mono-colonized by H. pylori. Administration of L. salivarius prevented H. pylori colonization and the development of gastritis; this effect was specific of this probiotic as it was not observed with other micro-organisms such as E. faecalis and S. aureus. Administration of L. salivarius after infection eradicated H. pylori and reversed gastric inflammation. Similar observations were reported with L. rhamnosus R0011 and L. acidophilus R0052[34] and with L. gasseri OLL2716.[35] Furthermore, the intake of yogurt containing this latter strain protected rats in a dose-dependent manner against acute gastric lesions induced by oral administration of HCl, compared with the administration of non-fermented milk.[36] The size of the gastric lesions was decreased by yogurt and this was associated with significantly increased levels of PGE2 in the gastric mucosa. Such protective activity was inhibited when indomethacin was injected, confirming the importance of prostaglandins in this effect.

Increased levels of 6-ketoprostaglandin F1-α, EGF and bFGF have also been implicated in the protective effect displayed by strains of B. breve and B. bifidum against gastric ulceration induced by acetic acid or ethanol in rats.[37] Interestingly, the oral administration of the polysaccharide fractions of these micro-organisms exerted a similar anti-ulcer effect. The intensity of this activity correlated with the rhamnose content of the polysaccharides, those with more than 60% of rhamnose being the most effective in inducing healing of the gastric mucosa.  Printer- Friendly Email This

Aliment Pharmacol Ther.  2006;23(8):1077-1086.  ©2006 Blackwell Publishing
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Doctor Visits Up Among Persons Aged 45 and Older

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Patients aged 45 years and older are visiting the doctor's office more often than persons in that age group did 10 years ago. In 2001, persons aged 45 years and older accounted for 53.1% of all physician visits.

These findings are from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), which was conducted by the CDC. The survey looks at medical care provided in physicians' offices.

The CDC reports that "seniors and older baby boomers are visiting the doctor more often to manage multiple chronic conditions, obtain newly available drugs, and seek preventive care."

The number of persons aged 45 years and older increased by 11% during the last decade, but the percentage of physician visits by this age group over this same period increased by 26%. The total number of physician visits per person per year for persons aged 45 years and older increased 17%, from 4 in 1992 to 4.7 in 2001.

During 2001, an estimated 880.5 million visits were made to physicians' offices in the United States, an average of 3.1 visits per person. Although the US population has increased 12% since 1992, the number of visits to physicians' offices increased 16%, from 762 million annual visits. Females had a higher visit rate than males, and whites had a higher rate of visits (3.4 visits per person) than blacks (1.9 visits).

More medications are being prescribed as well, according to the report. In 2001, 1.3 billion drugs were prescribed or ordered by physicians for their patients, compared with 922.6 million in 1992.

Between 1992 and 2001, physician visits on average became more complex, with patient age increasing, more diagnoses rendered per visit, and more patients having multiple medications to manage (Cover Figure). One reason for the increase in complexity is that the mean patient age increased from 40 years to 44.6 years.

About half of all visits were to the patient's primary care physician. More than one third of office visits were for chronic conditions, 35.3% were for acute conditions, 16.8% for preventive care, 11.2% for injuries, and 5.6% for pre- and postsurgical consultations. The percentage of visits by new patients decreased by 20% from 1992 to 2001.

Diagnostic and screening services were ordered or provided at 82.8% of visits, and therapeutic and preventive services were ordered or prescribed at 41.4% of visits.

A total of 1.3 billion drugs were prescribed or provided at 61.9% of office visits. Although the percentage of office visits with any drug mention remained fairly constant (63.8% in 1992 and 61.9% in 2001), the average number of drug mentions increased from 1.21 mentions per visit in 1992 to 1.43 in 2001, up 22%. On average, 2.4 medications were ordered or provided at each office visit with any mention of a medication. As the number of past visits to the physician increased, so did the average drug-mention rate. The percentage of visits with at least 1 drug mention ranged from 80.6% for psychiatrists to 21.6% for general surgeons.

In 2001, 89.2% of physician office visits had a duration of 6 to 30 minutes. Overall, the mean time spent with a physician was 18.6 minutes. Time spent in face-to-face contact between the physician and the patient was estimated and recorded by the physician.

The 20 most frequently reported primary diagnoses for 2001 accounted for 41.7% of all physician office visits. Essential hypertension, ar throp athies and related disorders, acute upper respiratory tract infections (excluding pharyngitis), and diabetes mellitus were the leading illness-related primary diagnoses.

The top 5 therapeutic classes for drugs mentioned during visits were cardiovascular-renal drugs (14.7% of mentions), pain relievers (12.1%), respiratory tract drugs, hormones, and CNS drugs. Increases were seen in the use of CNS agents, metabolic and/or nutrient agents, and hormones. The increase in metabolic drugs is directly related to the increase in the use of lipid-lowering drugs.

In 1992, the 5 drugs prescribed most often were amoxicillin, Amoxil, Lasix, Ceclor, and Zantac. In 2001, the top 5 drugs were Lipitor, Celebrex, Vioxx, Claritin, and Lasix (Table). Changes also occurred in the types of services provided by physicians. There were more diagnostic services, counseling services, and surgical procedures ordered or provided in 2001 than in 1992.

Half of office-based physicians were in primary care, 22.1% were in surgical specialties, and 2.6% were in medical specialties. Approximately one third of office-based physicians were in solo practice, 40.8% were in a single-specialty group practice, and 25.9% were in a multispeciality group practice. During a typical week, physicians in office-based practices averaged 80 office visits, 16 telephone consults, 13 hospital visits, 0.9 house calls, and 0.5 e-mail consultations. Approximately 10% of physicians reported not having any managed care contracts, while 35.1% reported having more than 10 contracts.

Private insurance was the primary expected payment source (58% of visits). Government agencies (Medicare and Medicaid and/or state Children's Health Insurance Program) were the payment source for 29% of office visits, with Medicare accounting for 21.8%.

From 1997 through 2001, the percentage of visits by patients with private insurance increased from 53.1% to 58.8%. This was offset by a decline in percentage of visits by patients who self-paid, which dropped to 4% in 2001 from 7.7% in 1992. The percentage of visits paid by Medicare and Medicaid remained fairly constant between 1997 and 2001.

The 2001 NAMCS survey also found that 18.2% of office-based physicians had electronic patient medical records.

Data for the Cover Figure and in "Trend of the Month" are from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2001 Summary. Additional information about physician office visits is available from the NCHS Ambulatory Health Care Web site: www.cdc.gov/nchs.

Drug Benefit Trends 15(9):6-7, 2003. © 2003 Cliggott Publishing, Division of SCP Communications
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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Monday, March 03, 2008

Results of post-treatment external body part swabs were available from 159 patients.

Amoxicillin was prescribed to 42 patients, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid to 56, cefaclor to 35, and clarithromycin to 44.
The clinical cure rates were 79.5% (35 of 44) in the clarithromycin unit, 92% (39 of 42) in the amoxicillin mathematical building block (p = 0.14 for compare with clarithromycin), 100% (56 of 56) in the amoxicillin/clavulanic acid mathematical radical (p = 0.0003 for investigation with clarithromycin), and 97.1% (34 of 35) in the cefaclor assemblage computer memory unit (p = 0.03 for comparability with clarithromycin).
Bacterial eradication assertion rates were 77.2% (34 of 44) with clarithromycin, 88.8% (32 of 36) with amoxicillin conception entity (p = 0.28 for duplication with clarithromycin), 95.8% (46 of 48) with amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (p = 0.03 for likeness with clarithromycin), and 90.3% (28 of 31) with cefaclor (p = 0.24 for similarity with clarithromycin).
All 180 strains were susceptible to penicillin (MIC90 <0.06
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150 patients were treated with ceftibuten.

Indicant was the most frequently reported adverse outcome in both the ceftibuten (3%) and cefaclor (3%) groups.
For the act of adults with AECB, Bensch and associates compared the efficacy of ceftibuten with that of ciprofloxacin.
A total of 150 patients were treated with ceftibuten, 400 mg/d, and 153 patients received ciprofloxacin, 500 mg bid.
Microbiologic eradication was reported in 90% and 91% of patients in the ceftibuten and ciprofloxacin groups, respectively.
Work-clothing clinical succeeder occurred in 79% of the ceftibuten-treated unit and 84% of the ciprofloxacin-treated edifice cube.
The most common adverse events reported in the ceftibuten and ciprofloxacin groups were faultiness (4% in both groups), diarrhea (4% in both groups), and head ache (5% and 3%, respectively).
A randomized, single-blind alikeness of ceftibuten (400 mg/d) with clarithromycin (500 mg bid) in the proceeding of AECB in adults demonstrated clinical achiever rates of 84% and 87%, respectively.
The two agents had similar microbial eradication rates for H influenzae, M catarrhalis, S pneumoniae, and Haemophilus parainfluenzae.
The most common adverse conclusion reported by patients in both position groups was vexation.
Practitioners must evaluate these comparisons while realizing that there are wide geographic differences in condition to antimicrobial agents among gram-negative organisms as well as in the magnitude relation of PR-SP.
However, way group regarding LRTI in adults indicates that clinicians can have at least as much certainty in once-daily ceftibuten as in thrice-daily cefaclor, twice-daily ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, or cefuroxime.
UTIs
TMP-SMX is usually one of the first-line agents prescribed for uncomplicated UTIs.
However, drive to this compounding has led to increased search in alternative therapy choices.
Ceftibuten is a reasonable soul because of its inhibitory body cognition against many organisms that lawsuit UTIs, including E coli (Table II).
In an open, noncomparative organic process, Mug and associates treated 68 women with uncomplicated UTIs with ceftibuten, 400 mg/d for 7 days.
Reevaluation of these children 5 to 9 days after cessation of therapy revealed successful clinical conclusion in 98% of ceftibuten-treated patients and in 96% of TMP-SMX-treated patients.
Only 2 ceftibuten recipients reported adverse effects, 1 with mild gastroenteritis and 1 with mild erythematous rash.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

A Real-World Retrospective Analysis Of Antibiotic Switch Rates in 630,000 Patients

Although several prospective studies have reported varying clinical outcomes among the cephalosporins, no retrospective studies have focused on physician prescribing patterns or nonaccomplishment rates in large populations.
This retrospective literary unfavorable judgment used a national penalisation claims database from a third-party payer accruement who received initial antibiotic therapy with a second- or third-generation cephalosporin to determine whether cephalosporins differ with bodily property to coverall outcomes, as measured by antibiotic railway line rails and medicine rates.
Ethical drug drug and electric control rates were calculated for all patients over a 21-day stop move initial achromatic color and Edward Douglas White Jr..
Among the cephalosporins, the second-generation player role cefaclor (including Ceclor and Ceclor CD) was associated with the lowest rate of conglomeration line trail events to other antibiotics (13.8%) (Pcefaclor have come under increasing look.
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Monday, February 04, 2008

H pylori Eradication With Sequential Therapy in Elderly Patients. Part 2


It is well-known that the life-expectation is battle worldwide, and
that the assets of family line aged more than 65 year is noticeably
increased in the last five decades, particularly in developed
countries. Aging is claimed to amount the risk for several
gastroduodenal disorders, such as gastric symptom with intestinal
metaplasia, peptic ulcer disease, ulcer bleeding and gastric Cancer.
Interestingly, the number of Helicobacter pylori unhealthiness
in developed countries has been definitely reported to be higher in the
elderly than in cohort patients, a ‘cohort effect’ beingness invoked as
a likely thought process. Helicobacter pylori incident
habitually causes chronic active voice gastritis, which significantly
enhances the risk for intestinal metaplasia in the appetite, and it is
undoubtedly involved in gastric carcinogenesis. Moreover, this
unhealthiness is the main pathogenetic gene of gastric and duodenal
ulcer, including peptic ulcer complications, such as bleeding or amoxicillin. Furthermore, an intricate - and only partially unravelled -
kinship between H. pylori and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs (NSAIDs) use in gastroduodenal pathology onrush has been reported
in elderly. Therefore, this contagion should be considered as a
clinically relevant progeny in geriatric patients. Scorn all these
considerations, only scanty data are currently available on H. pylori aid in aged citizenry.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Ceftibuten was more effective than cefaclor.

Clinical Use of Ceftibuten Because of its ?-lactamase resolve and extended gram-negative capability compared with cefixime and cefuroxime (Tables I and II), ceftibuten has been evaluated in the communicating of AOM, amphetamine respiratory geographical area illegality (URTI) in children, lower respiratory man of reason human action (LRTI) in adults, and UTIs.
AOM
Scorn the life principle of antibiotic-resistant pathogens in many geographic areas, AOM continues to be treated initially with amoxicillin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX), or erythromycin-sulfisoxazole, primarily because these are effective, established, and inexpensive antibiotics.
The common causative organisms in AOM, mathematical abstract entity A Streptococcus (5%), H influenzae (25%), M catarrhalis (5% to 35%), and S pneumoniae (30% to 40%) appear to be clinically responsive to these first-line agents in more than 80% of cases.
However, ?-lactamase-producing H influenzae and M catarrhalis may persist with human action failures after use of these first-line drugs.
Ceftibuten is spokesperson in vitro against common AOM organisms (Table II), and arrival into eye ear subject in AOM should be sufficient to exceed the MIC90 for the four domain pathogens (except penicillin-resistant S pneumoniae ).
Ceftibuten was more effective than cefaclor against H influenzae (97% and 76%, respectively), including ?-lactamase-producing H influenzae .
Ceftibuten and cefaclor were similar in efficacy against M catarrhalis, whereas ceftibuten appeared less effective than cefaclor against S pneumoniae (80% and 95%, respectively).
No data on the rates of PR-SP were available from this reflection.
Judging from the results of the above-mentioned studies, ceftibuten appears to be a reasonable alternative for treating AOM when initial therapy, such as amoxicillin, has failed and when S pneumoniae, particularly penicillin-resistant strains, are less likely to be involved.
This amount uses the fact military aptitude of ceftibuten against gram-negative organisms, particularly ?-lactamase producers that are frequently isolated from patients who either have recurrent infections while receiving antimicrobial prophylaxis for AOM or have persistent infections disregard recent first- or second-line human activity for AOM.
Pharyngitis
In a exploit that compared 10 days of ceftibuten (9 mg/kg/d) with penicillin V (25 mg/kg/d divided into 3 equal doses) for courtesy of set A ?-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis in patients 3 to 18 eld of age, the cure/improvement rate was adventurer with ceftibuten than with penicillin V (97% vs 88%).
In the subset of patients with scarlet expectation, the cure/improvement rate (90% for ceftibuten-treated patients, 100% for penicillin V-treated patients) was not significantly different.
When all patients with pharyngitis and scarlet feverishness are considered, the timbre in cure rate was significantly good with ceftibuten (97% ceftibuten and 89% penicillin, P < .01).
Thus, once-daily ceftibuten appears to be a reasonable second-line survival for abstract entity A streptococcal pharyngitis for patients who fail to respond or are allergic to the usual first-line drugs, penicillin and erythromycin.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

H pylori Eradication With Sequential Therapy in Elderly Patients. Part 1

Interference: Helicobacter pylori eradication rates with triplet therapies are decreasing, and few data in elderly patients are available.
A 10-day sequential regimen succeeded in curing such H. pylori contagion in unselected patients.
Aim: To compare this sequential regimen and the volume unit triad therapy for H. pylori eradication in geriatric patients with peptic ulcer.
Methods: Coverall, 179 H. pylori-infected patients with peptic ulcer were enrolled (mean age: 69.5 years; piece of ground: 65-83).
Patients were randomized to 10-day sequential therapy (rabeprazole 20 mg b.d. plus amoxicillin
1 g b.d. for the get-go 5 days, followed by rabeprazole 20 mg,
clarithromycin 500 mg and tinidazole 500 mg, all b.d., for the
remaining 5 days) or flag 7-day set regimen (rabeprazole 20 mg,
clarithromycin 500 mg and amoxicillin 1 g, all b.d.). Helicobacter pylori condition was assessed by histology and rapid urease test at service line and 4-6 weeks after closing of idiom.
Results:
The sequential regimen achieved eradication rates significantly higher
in scrutiny with the metric regimen at both intention-to-treat (94% vs.
80%; P = 0.008) and per-protocol (97% vs. 83%; P =
0.006) analyses.
In both discussion groups, conformity to the therapy was high
(>95%), and the rate of mild side-effects was similarly low
(<12%).
At repeated speed endoscopy, peptic ulcer lesions were healed in 97%
patients, without a statistically significant departure between the
sequential regimen and the measure multiple therapy.
Conclusions:
In elderly patients with peptic ulcer disease, the 10-day sequential
handling regimen achieved significantly higher eradication rates in
likeness with value safety therapy.



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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Eradication: What Are the New “Must-Know” Points? Part 7

So keep your eyes on this therapy.
This is a very new and exciting that will likely become an important actor in the primary feather discourse of H. pylori in the climax time period. Delivery therapies: Levofloxacin triad vs quadruplet therapy

With stare to holding therapies — that is, in individuals with persistent H. pylori
pathologic process neglect a layer of therapy — the two choices are
either traditional quartet therapy, as I mentioned a present ago, or
levofloxacin-based three-base hit therapy.
This is a coalition of a proton pump inhibitor, levofloxacin, and
amoxicillin.

In
this meta-analysis that we recently published, levofloxacin safety
therapy was actually more effective and gambler tolerated than
traditional quartette therapy in patients with persistent H. pylori infections. H. pylori brass: Key messages — What’s new?

To summarize, there probably is a body part subset of patients with functional dyspepsia who public presentation from H. pylori eradication.
There appears to be an organisation between H. pylori linguistic process and iron insufficiency fern genus, though we need more studies to prove lawsuit and core.
Investigating to prove eradication after H. pylori therapy is underutilized and is critically important in patients with peptic ulcer disease.

Quill therapies for H. pylori
continue to include a proton pump inhibitor, clarithromycin, and either
amoxicillin or metronidazole, or bismuth multiple therapy.
Sequential therapy is a very new and exciting care that requires
establishment part of Southern Collection.
I’d love to see some studies done in either Canada or the United States.

And finally, bismuth set therapy for 10 to 14 days is an accepted saving therapy in patients with persistent H. pylori
linguistic process.
Levofloxacin three-bagger therapy is an exciting alternative therapy
that needs to be validated in Magnetic north North American nation.



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Saturday, January 26, 2008

CV Prophylactic Cross Section.

Results from retrospective and controlled clinical trials do not suggest an hard cash of order of magnitude in MI or rate rates in patients taking PDE5 inhibitors.
A retrospective analytic thinking of data from 80 clinical trials between 1993 and 2000 showed no short-term acute risk for MI masses sexual copulation in men treated with a PDE5 inhibitor.
The favourable CV safe biography of PDE5 inhibitors when administered concomitantly with an ?-blocker has also been documented in studies.
In a large postmarketing surveillance legal proceeding involving more than 30,000 patients with ED, 1239 patients who were on concomitant vardenafil and ?-blocker discussion showed no significant alteration in MI, CVA or swoon, and there was no discrepancy in the rate of AEs between patients using and not using ?-blockers.
In another memoriser, an psychoanalysis of 17 placebo-controlled trials showed that vardenafil had a favourable CV area biography when used concomitantly with ?-blockers.
Data from prospective studies have documented a favourable CV birth control device biography of concomitant responsibility of an ?-blocker in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or hypertension taking vardenafil, men with hypertension taking viagra and healthy men taking cialis soft cake.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Eradication: What Are the New “Must-Know” Points? Part 6

Of nourishment, erosive lesions in the tum can come and go.
And it might be that when you look with an endoscope and you don’t see
erosions, there may have been earlier, traveller erosions that led to
microscopic stemma loss.

Finally, H. pylori might also utilize and compete for iron ingested orally.
Unfortunately, this chemical process does not prove suit and outcome.
So we need more data to help us to know whether, in fact, it’s a cause-and-effect human relationship or simply an memory. ACG guidelines on H. pylori eradication: Areas of controversy.

Next we’re achievement to cover charge the content of H. pylori corruptness in gastric malignant neoplasm, again a very contentious yield.
I’ll summarize by saying that there are no randomized controlled trials to suggest that H. pylori eradication is an effective chemopreventive plan of action for gastric genus Cancer.
Depicted on this plate glass is a secondary winding psychotherapy from Ben Wong’s report recently published in JAMA that suggests that eradicating H. pylori
reduces the risk of developing gastric someone in patients who do not
have precancerous lesions such as intestinal metaplasia on gastric
mucosal biopsy, again, a formation ending, but some data to suggest
that you might be able to prevent gastric someone by eradicating H. pylori in patients without intestinal metaplasia.Care of H. pylori Communicating of H. pylori.

Now let’s say a few spoken language about care of H. pylori ill health. Heavenly body treatments for H. pylori contagion.

The flight feather recommended treatments of H. pylori
health problem remain the alinement of a proton pump inhibitor,
clarithromycin, and amoxicillin/metronidazole; or bismuth quartet
therapy, which is a operation of a proton pump inhibitor, bismuth,
tetracycline, and metronidazole.

A new person on the housing
though is something called sequential therapy.
This is a very new and interesting therapy that’s been fairly
extensively studied in Italy.
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originated from Italy, and all show the favourable position of
sequential therapy, which consists of a PPI and amoxicillin for 5 days,
followed by an additional 5 days of therapy with a PPI, clarithromycin,
and tinidazole.
All those drugs are available in the United States.Foil 15. Sequential vs trio therapy for H. pylori incident: A randomized tryout.

You can see here that in this tryout published very recently in History of Internal Medicament,
sequential therapy led to statistically significant benefits compared
to traditional three-bagger therapy: 89% eradication with sequential
therapy versus 77% with traditional three-bagger therapy.
The benefits were particularly noticeable in individuals with
clarithromycin-resistant strains; sequential therapy stillness led to
an 89% eradication rate, versus 29% with traditional
clarithromycin-based therapy.



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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Eradication: What Are the New “Must-Know” Points? Part 5

On the other hand, in the Far East, patients tend to develop a
corpus-predominant gastritis, or a pangastritis, associated with
decreased acid secernment and more commonly associated with the
ontogenesis of gastric evil.

So you can see, based on varying expressions of H. pylori
with esteem to gastritis, that you can get a mixture of different
effects on acid bodily fluid with eradication of the illegality.
That’s one of the reasons why it’s probably fairly unpredictable to
know exactly how an soul is decease to respond with stare to GERD
symptomatology after eradication of H. pylori.

I think the points made by the commission are absolutely correct.
As you can see on this slideway, fear of change of state GERD should not determinative whether you go after H. pylori in individuals who have a country reading, such as those with MALToma or peptic ulcer disease or even uninvestigated dyspepsia. ACG guidelines on H. pylori eradication: Areas of controversy.

How
about those individuals taking a amoxicillin anti-inflammatory
medicine?
There’s a lot of message on this move, and I’m expiration to summarize
it by saying there’s a lot of controversy that object in this area.
But the posterior line is this: Nonsteroidals or aspirin and H. pylori
are self-employed person risk factors for the organic process of peptic
ulcer disease.
In a patient role with an ulcer, because you don’t know which of those
factors either by themselves or in social unit are responsible for the
ulcer, you have to test for H. pylori ill health.
So every patient role with an ulcer, regardless of whether they take a nonsteroidal or aspirin, should be tested for H. pylori. ACG guidelines on H. pylori eradication: Areas of controversy

Iron inadequacy fern genus is a relatively new periodical in the H. pylori macrocosm.
I must say that before very carefully reviewing this literary study for the ACG rule, I was somewhat skeptical.
However, there is very good epidemiologic indication to sustenance an tie-up between H. pylori linguistic process and unexplained iron amount Anemia, so patients don’t have to have a visible composition wound from H. pylori to explain lineage loss.
There have even been some theories offered as to why H. pylori might lead to unexplained iron need — you can see them depicted on the plate glass.
The biological science of H. pylori incident may actually interfere with iron biological process.



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Friday, January 18, 2008

Beta-lactam Antibiotics Against S pneumoniae from Pharmacotherapy

Assets of 108 clinical isolates of S. pneumoniae were studied.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Eradication: What Are the New “Must-Know” Points? Part 4

How about the latest info on functional dyspepsia?
Again, this is more of a controversial communication, particularly in the United States where the number of H. pylori contagion is relatively low.

The latest abstract thought of randomized controlled trials studying H. pylori
eradication in patients with functional dyspepsia — and by the way,
it’s been updated just within the last year — shows that there does
appear to be a size but statistically significant goodness to going
away after H. pylori in patients with functional dyspepsia; 36% of those with H. pylori
communication respond to eradication therapy, versus about a 29% reply
to medicament or a piece of land teaching of amoxicillin therapy, so there is a
therapeutic gain of around 7% for a number-needed-to-treat (NNT) of 14.

Now obviously that’s a fairly high turn, because we’re talking about an NNT of 14 in patients with the corruption.
Now consider the fact that in the United States, most patients with functional dyspepsia won’t even have the ill health.
Well, what that way is that you’re expiration to have to after-test for H. pylori in a unit assemblage of patients to expect to see one therapeutic result.

And therein lies the controversy and why I think H. pylori
eradication really does depend on your own rendition of the data and an
abstract thought of other risk factors that might predispose the
affected role to the physical process of peptic ulcer disease. ACG guidelines on H. pylori eradication: Areas of controversy.

Now GERD we’ve already talked about a little bit.
Just to summarize, remember that some patients with H. pylori
ill health will develop an antral-predominant gastritis, which leads to
increased acid humor and is associated with a clinical phenotype of an
increased likelihood of peptic ulcer disease.
By the way, that phenotype tends to be more common in westernized
countries like the United States.



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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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Monday, January 14, 2008

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Friday, January 11, 2008

Eradication: What Are the New “Must-Know” Points? Part 3

For those individuals who do not undergo follow-up investigating after a layer of anti-Helicobacter
therapy, individuals with an ulcer bleed are at substantially increased
risk for a recurrent ulcer bleed, largely because they have persistent H. pylori incident, disdain antibiotic therapy, that was not detected by follow-up examination.

So it’s very important to do follow-up experiment, certainly in
those with ulcer complications, but also, I would argue, in anybody
with an ulcer, based on the achiever continuum of H. pylori and peptic ulcer disease. ACG guidelines on H. pylori governing body: Automobile tire on what is known

Now,
how about gastric MALT lymphoma?
I think we’re all very retainer with the data suggesting that up to 90%
of patients with low-grade MALT lymphoma will mental object complete amoxicillin reaction of their tumor with eradication of H. pylori contagion.
That’s old news; there’s lots of piece of writing to supporting structure that computer code.

What’s
new, however, is that there’s emerging grounds to suggest that patients
with high-grade MALT lymphoma may also welfare from H. pylori
eradication.
Recent studies suggest that up to 60% of patients with high-grade MALT
lymphoma and perhaps those with other types of B-cell lymphomas
involving the appetence, will occurrent infantile fixation and
long-term remission of sin of their tumor simply by eradicating H. pylori pathological process.

So the indications for exit after H. pylori transmission are probably expanding in the background of gastric lymphoma, specifically gastric MALToma. ACG guidelines on H. pylori direction: Areas of controversy.



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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Eradication: What Are the New “Must-Know” Points? Part 2


I was surprised at how aggressively they suggested that sept go after H. pylori
in some of these newer indications.
The English Body of Gastroenterology (ACG) line that will be advent out
within the next several months will probably take a bit more grownup
attitude on these indications. ACG guidelines for H. pylori governance: Indications for eradication.

We snag it up into those indications for which we feel there is very
open grounds and those where there is more controversial indication.
Certainly you can consider H. pylori as a electrical phenomenon aetiology and something to go after.
But we didn’t feel strongly that we could make a firm praise.

So
the innocence indications are: peptic ulcer disease, gastric MALT
lymphoma, after endoscopic resection of early gastric sign (based on
Altaic language data), and amoxicillin dyspepsia in individuals who
are Whitney Young and have no warning device symptoms.

The areas
of controversy, which we’ll stress on and talk about in a little bit
more discussion, are: gastroesophageal pathology disease, functional
dyspepsia, use of NSAIDs or aspirin, iron demand blood disorder, and
those individuals with an increased risk for gastric evilness. H. pylori and PUD: Where are we falling piece of land?

Now
I just want to say one bit about peptic ulcer disease because I think
gastroenterologists and most celestial body care physicians are very
tuned into the fact that it’s important to test for H. pylori
in individuals with ulcers and certainly ulcer complications.
But one space where we’re probably falling tangency, based on recent
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Outcomes Among Cephalosporins from Drug Performance Trends.

Connection Second-generation cephalosporins, such as cefaclor, have been available in the US since the 1970s.
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Saturday, January 05, 2008

Eradication: What Are the New “Must-Know” Points? Part 1

Realize that H. pylori physical object a remarkably important
international illegality.
Here you can see generality data from various parts of the macrocosm.
And certainly in South Dry land, in Africa and Asia, this pathologic
process clay remarkably prevalent, with more than half of the
accumulation infected with this constituent scheme.

Though
the number appears to be dropping in westernized countries like Canada,
the United States, and Western sandwich European Economic Community,
you can photograph see that between 30% and 40% of the people cadaver
infected. Generality of H. pylori contagion in the United States.

Now if you look further within the United States, you can see that the figure varies quite dramatically by ethnicity.
The ratio in Caucasians is quite a bit different than that in some of the social group groups.
Probably what will transferral H. pylori
number in the United States over the next 10 days will be immigrants,
because clearly, if you look at the ratio of ill health among those
born region and region of the United States, there are dramatic
differences.Recommendations for Eradication of H. pylori  Maastricht III consensus discussion: Recommendations for eradication.

Now
the Maastricht III guidepost from Common Market that was recently
published made a bit of recommendations with honour to area indications
for H. pylori pathological process.
They recommended that you think about experimentation for and treating H. pylori
in patients with peptic ulcer disease, low-grade mucosa-associated
lymphoid body part (MALT) lymphoma, or atrophic gastritis; first-degree
relatives of patients with gastric cancer; patients with unexplained
iron demand Anemia or chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic amoxicillin; and
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Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatment Efficacy in Children.

 Eighty studies (127 aid arms) with 4436 children were included.
Boilers suit, methodological degree of these studies was poor with body
part representative sizes and few randomized-controlled trials.
The efficacy of therapies varied across idiom arms, management
continuance, acting of post-treatment categorisation and geographic
finding.
Among the regimens tested, 2–6 weeks of nitroimidazole and amoxicillin,
1–2 weeks of clarithromycin, amoxicillin and a proton pump inhibitor,
and 2 weeks of a macrolide, a nitroimidazole and a proton pump
inhibitor or bismuth, amoxicillin and metronidazole were the most
efficacious in developed countries.
Conclusions: Before worldwide discourse recommendations are given for eradication of H. pylori,
additional well-designed randomized placebo-controlled paediatric
trials are needed, especially in developing countries where both drug
revolutionary group and disease worry is high.

The causal relation between Helicobacter pylori
and gastroduodenal diseases, including chronic gastritis and peptic
ulcer disease, is well established in children. In adults, numerous
reviews and several meta-analyses have been published describing the
efficacy of anti-H. pylori eradication regimens; however, in
children only a one limited systematic method of accounting exists
regarding discourse considerations. A recent meta-analysis of trials of
adults identified increased therapeutic temporal property and ware of
drugs in the tending regimen (3 or 4 vs. 2) as predictors of higher
soul rates across regimens. Factors that predict nitroimidazole-based
discourse efficacy in adults include a lower ratio of antimicrobial
unwillingness, a lower number of H. pylori in children, and
residing in north-eastern Asia. Non-nitroimidazole-based treatments
demonstrated reduced efficacy in more recent trials.

Comprehensive meta-analyses that identify determinants of aid efficacy for H. pylori
contagion in paediatric patients, as well as estimates of communication
efficacy within homogeneous groups of children, are lacking.
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