Liječnički vjesnik, Vol. 136 No. 1-2, 2014.
Professional paper
CROATIAN GUIDELINES FOR DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENTS OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION
Miroslava Katičić
Marko Duvnjak
Tajana Filipec Kanižaj
Željko Krznarić
Marinko Marušić
Silvijo Mihaljević
Vanda Plečko
Roland Pulanić
Miroslav Šimunić
Ante Tonkić
Abstract
In the past 30-year period of investigations, the crucial role of Helicobacter pylori in chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer development, and subsequently in gastric cancer and MALT lymphoma pathogenesis, has been recognized. During the first meeting of European Helicobacter Study Group in 1996 in Maastricht, the first recommendations for diagnostics and treatments of Helicobacter pylori infection were published, later reviewed in 2000, 2007 and 2010. The first meeting of Croatian doctors focusing on the same topics, but suitable to specific national circumstances, was held as early as 1998. The need for updating the old guidelines has emerged during the last years. The working expert group of gastroenterologists was formed and gathered on Consesus Conference in December 2012 in Zagreb, to arrive to current guidelines for the clinical management of Helicobacter pylori infection in Croatia. The following topics relating to Helicobacter pyloriinfection were examined: 1. indications and contraindications for diagnostics and treatments; 2. diagnostic methods and 3. treatments applicable in our country.
Keywords
Helicobacter infections – diagnosis, drug therapy, complications; Helicobacter pylori – isolation and purifications, pathogenicity, drug effects; Anti-bacterial agents – therapeutic use; Proton pump inhibitors – therapeutic use; Bismuth – therapeutic use; Drug therapy, combination; Algorithms; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
172574
URI
Publication date:
27.2.2014.
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