The Prevalence of Helicobacter Pylori in Dyspeptic Patients and the Relationship with Endoscopic Diagnosis

Aim: One of the most common reasons of the chronic gastritis is Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection. Recent studies reported that Hp gastritis is involved with the duodenal ulcer, atrophic gastritis, dyspepsia, gastric cancer and MALT lymphoma. The prevalence of Hp infection has regional differences. We aimed to determine the frequency of Hp infection in our region and introduce the relationship between results of endoscopy with Hp infection. Material and Method: In this study we analyzed retrospectively 412 patients' endoscopy results and histopathological results between 2013 January-2014 February. Total 246 patients who have underwent endoscopic biopsy and Hphistopathologically investigated. Results: Male and female ratio was 1.8:1. There were 77 male patients and 139 female patients. Mean age of patients was 46.50 +/- 15.05 and range of age was 15 to 82. There was not any statically meaningful association between Hp and patients ages and gender (p>0.05).47.7% of patients were diagnosed as Hp positive, There was a meaningful relationship between Hp (+) and chronic gastritis (+) groups (p<0.05). Discussion: Hp infection is a widespread gastrointestinal problem. As a result of this study the prevalence of the Hp infection is %47.7 that is a lower rate than the other studies reported. Involvement of the Hp and gastritis, duodenitis and esophagitis was confirmed with the present study. Although Hp could be diagnosed with many tests histopathological analysis of the microorganism and pathological evaluation of the gastric mucosal tissue has advantage of assessment Hp together with intestinal metaplasia, gastric atrophy and chronic gastritis.