Remission of severe anemia persisting for over 20 years after eradication of Helicobacter pylori in cases of Ménétrier's disease and atrophic gastritis: Helicobacter pylori as a pathogenic factor in iron-deficiency anemia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 971-977

  Yoshimura, Makoto ^a   Hirai, Masamichi ^a   Tanaka, Nobuyoshi ^a   Kasahara, Yoshio ^a   Hosokawa, Osamu ^b  

^a FUKUI KEN SAISEIKAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Fukui Prefectural Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrophic gastritis; Eradication therapy; Helicobacter pylori; Iron deficiency anemia; M n trier's disease

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; FERRIC OXIDE; FERRITIN; FERROUS FUMARATE; FERROUS ION; IRON; IRON DERIVATIVE; METRONIDAZOLE; OMEPRAZOLE; RABEPRAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERADICATION THERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FLUOROSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MENETRIER DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; REMISSION;

EID: 0242490953     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.971     Document Type: Article

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