OBJECTIVE: To compare the eradication rates among the different point mutations and the efficacy of triple therapy and a sequential regimen according to genotypic resistance. STUDY DESIGN: Post hoc retrospective cohort study in a tertiary referral center for pediatric gastroenterology in southern Italy. All 168 children who were positive for Helicobacter pylori were enrolled. Patients had received clarithromycin-based 7-day triple therapy (73 children) or 10-day sequential therapy regimen (95 children). Real-time polymerase chain reaction for assessing clarithromycin resistance was performed on sections of paraffin-embedded gastric biopsy samples. RESULTS: H pylori eradication was achieved in 16 of 32 (50%) children with the A2143G mutation, in 8 of 10 patients with either A2142G or A2142C strains (80%), and in 112 of 116 children with susceptible strains (88.9%). The presence of A2143G mutation was associated with a lower cure rate compared with the rate in the absence of this mutation (50% vs. 89%; P = .001). The sequential regimen achieved a higher cure rate than triple therapy in patients with A2143G mutant strains (80% vs nil; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: The A2143G mutation confers higher risk of treatment failure. Sequential regimen has higher efficacy than standard therapy, even in children with A2143G mutatant strains. Copyright (c) 2010. Published by Mosby, Inc.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the eradication rates among the different point mutations and the efficacy of triple therapy and a sequential regimen according to genotypic resistance. STUDY DESIGN: Post hoc retrospective cohort study in a tertiary referral center for pediatric gastroenterology in southern Italy. All 168 children who were positive for Helicobacter pylori were enrolled. Patients had received clarithromycin-based 7-day triple therapy (73 children) or 10-day sequential therapy regimen (95 children). Real-time polymerase chain reaction for assessing clarithromycin resistance was performed on sections of paraffin-embedded gastric biopsy samples. RESULTS: H pylori eradication was achieved in 16 of 32 (50%) children with the A2143G mutation, in 8 of 10 patients with either A2142G or A2142C strains (80%), and in 112 of 116 children with susceptible strains (88.9%). The presence of A2143G mutation was associated with a lower cure rate compared with the rate in the absence of this mutation (50% vs. 89%; P = .001). The sequential regimen achieved a higher cure rate than triple therapy in patients with A2143G mutant strains (80% vs nil; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: The A2143G mutation confers higher risk of treatment failure. Sequential regimen has higher efficacy than standard therapy, even in children with A2143G mutatant strains. Copyright (c) 2010. Published by Mosby, Inc.
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